Effects of preservation technique on the length of larval fish: Methods of correcting estimates and their implication for studying growth rates.

Archive of Fishery and Marine Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 17-29

  Fey, Dariusz P ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; GROWTH RATE; LARVA; PRESERVATION;

CALLOGOBIUS ATRATUS; ENCHEYLOPUS; ENCHEYLOPUS CIMBRIUS; POMATOSCHISTUS MINUTUS; POMATOSCISTUS; POMATOSCISTUS MINUTUS; SPRATTUS SPRATTUS;

EID: 0033496996     PISSN: 09441921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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