Estimating long-term growth-rate changes of southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) from two periods of tag-return data

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 58-74

  Hearn, William S ^a   Polacheck, Thomas ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GROWTH MODELING; GROWTH RATE; TUNA FISHERY; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

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

EID: 0037242996     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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