Proportionality of Body to Scale Growth: Validation of Two Back-Calculation Models with Individually Tagged and Recaptured Smallmouth Bass and Walleyes

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 815-831

  Klumb, Robert A ^a   Bozek, Michael A ^a   Frie, Richard V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN STEVENS POINT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; BODY GROWTH; GEOGRAPHIC REGION; GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCALE GROWTH; SEX;

BIOENERGETICS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; GROWTH;

MICROPTERUS DOLOMIEU; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 0033407550     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1999)128<0815:POBTSG>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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