Periodicity of increment formation in otoliths of overwintering postlarval and prejuvenile Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 98, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 421-426

  Ahrenholz, Dean W ^a   Squires, Deborah D ^d   Rice, James A ^d   Nixon, Stephen W ^b   Fitzhugh, Gary R ^c  

^a SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS;

EID: 0034091874     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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