A flexible maximum likelihood approach for fitting growth curves to tag-recapture data

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 976-986

  Laslett, Geoff M ^a   Eveson, J Paige ^a   Polacheck, Tom ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISH; GROWTH CURVE; GROWTH MODELING; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; TAGGING;

SCOMBRIDAE GEN. SP.; THUNNUS MACCOYII; THUNNUS THYNNUS;

EID: 0036381617     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/f02-069     Document Type: Article

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