Size- and sex-selective mortality of adult sockeye salmon: Bears, gulls, and fish out of water

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 995-1005

  Quinn, Thomas P ^a   Buck, Gregory B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE AT MATURITY; BREEDING POPULATION; MORTALITY; PREDATION; SALMONID; SIZE AT MATURITY;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 0034766629     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2001)130<0995:SASSMO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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