A comparison of calcified structures for aging bluefish in the chesapeake bay region

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 131, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 783-790

  Sipe, Ann M ^a   Chittenden, Mark E ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FISH; OTOLITH;

UNITED STATES;

POMATOMUS; POMATOMUS SALTATRIX; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0036318628     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(2002)131<0783:ACOCSF>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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