Seasonal variability in sediment profiles beneath fish farm cages in the Mediterranean

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 243-252

  Karakassis, Ioannis ^a   Tsapakis, Manolis ^a   Hatziyanni, Eleni ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fish farms; Mediterranean; Sediment chemistry; Vertical profiles

Indexed keywords

CAGES; MARICULTURE; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SEDIMENT PROFILE;

CEPHALONIA BAY; GREECE;

EID: 0032510064     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps162243     Document Type: Article

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