Evaluation of total-body electrical conductivity to estimate whole-body water content of yellow perch, Perch flavescens, and alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 71-79

  Lantry, Brian F ^a,b   Stewart, Donald J ^a   Rand, Peter S ^c   Mills, Edward L ^d  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Natural Resources and the Environment   (United States)

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