Relationships among fat weight, body weight, water weight, and condition factors in wild atlantic salmon parr

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 527-538

  Sutton, Stephen G ^a,b   Bult, Tammo P ^a,c   Haedrich, Richard L ^a  

^a MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c National Institute for Coastal and Marine Management RIKZ   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; CONDITION FACTOR; FAT; SALMONID; WEIGHT;

SALMO SALAR;

EID: 0034080782     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<0527:RAFWBW>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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