Length-girth relationships for several marine fishes

Fisheries Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 161-168

  Stergiou, Konstantinos I ^a   Karpouzi, Vasiliki S ^a,b  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fish girth; Fish morphology; Length girth relationships; Selectivity

Indexed keywords

BODY SHAPE; FISH; MORPHOLOGY; SIZE SELECTION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

PISCES;

EID: 0037472699     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(02)00077-2     Document Type: Article

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