Migration failure in stocked eels Anguilla anguilla

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 254, Issue , 2003, Pages 307-311

  Westin, Lars ^a  

^a GOTLAND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; European eel; Imprinting; Maturation; Migration; Orientation; Stocking

Indexed keywords

EEL; FISHERY; IMPRINTING; MATURATION; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; ORIENTATION; STOCK ENHANCEMENT;

BALTIC SEA; GOTLAND; SWEDEN;

ANGUILLA ANGUILLA; ANGUILLIFORMES;

EID: 0038377831     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps254307     Document Type: Article

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