Morphometric separation of annual cohorts within mid-Atlantic bluefish, Pomatomus saltatrix, using discriminant function analysis

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 411-420

  Austin, Herbert M ^a   Scoles, Daniel ^a   Abell, Allison J ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; STOCK IDENTIFICATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

POMATOMUS SALTATRIX;

EID: 0032781067     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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