Concurrent decline of the spawning stock, recruitment, larval abundance, and size of the blue crab Callinectes sapidus in Chesapeake Bay

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 226, Issue , 2002, Pages 45-61

  Lipcius, Romuald N ^a   Stockhausen, William T ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Blue crab; Callinectes sapidus; Conservation; Exploitation; Larval abundance; Recruitment; Spawning stock

Indexed keywords

CRAB FISHERY; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; LARVA; RECRUITMENT; SPAWNING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES; CALLINECTES SAPIDUS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); INVERTEBRATA;

EID: 0037204136     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps226045     Document Type: Article

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