Exploitation and Mortality of Paddlefish in the Lower Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1171-1180

  Timmons, Tom J ^a   Hughbanks, Tyrone A ^a  

^a MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPLOITATION; HARVESTING; INLAND FISHERY; MORTALITY; SPORT FISHING;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034456156     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<1171:EAMOPI>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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