Egg Size and Viability and Seasonal Offspring Production of Young Atlantic Cod

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 339-359

  Trippel, Edward A ^a  

^a ST ANDREWS BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; FECUNDITY; SEASONALITY; VIABILITY;

(NORTHWEST(; ATLANTIC;

GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 0031821426     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<0339:ESAVAS>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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