Distinction between silver hake (Merluccius bilinearis) stocks in U.S. waters of the northwest Atlantic based on whole otolith morphometrics

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 451-462

  Bolles, Karen L ^a,b   Begg, Gavin A ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISHERY SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; OTOLITH; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

MERLUCCIUS BILINEARIS;

EID: 0033852025     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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