Atlantic menhaden recruitment to a southern estuary: Defining potential spawning regions

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1999, Pages 111-123

  Stegmann, Petra M ^a   Quinlan, John A ^b   Werner, Francisco E ^b   Blanton, Brian O ^b   Berrien, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic menhaden; AVHRR; Brevoortia tyrannus; Early life history; Fisheries oceanography; Hydrodynamic model; Larval transport; Recruitment; SABRE; Satellite; Temperature

Indexed keywords

CLUPEOID; LARVAL TRANSPORT; RECRUITMENT; SPAWNING GROUND;

UNITED STATES;

BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS;

EID: 0033389758     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00022.x     Document Type: Article

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