Patterns in Abundance, Growth, and Mortality of Juvenile Red Drum across Estuaries on the Texas Coast with Implications for Recruitment and Stock Enhancement

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1207-1222

  Scharf, Frederick S ^a,b  

^a TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ESTUARINE ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH RATE; MORTALITY; RECRUITMENT; STOCK ENHANCEMENT;

UNITED STATES;

SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS; TRIXIS;

EID: 0034474080     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2000)129<1207:PIAGAM>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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