Estimating mortality rates of adult fish from entrainment through the propellers of river towboats

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 646-661

  Gutreuter, Steve ^a   Dettmers, John M ^b   Wahl, David H ^b  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTRAINMENT; FISH; FISHING VESSEL; MORTALITY;

ALOSA; ALOSA CHRYSOCHLORIS; AVES; BUBALUS; CHRYSOCHLORIS; CLUPEA HARENGUS; DOROSOMA CEPEDIANUM; DOROSOMATINAE; ICTIOBUS BUBALUS; PISCES; SCAPHIRHYNCHUS; SCAPHIRHYNCHUS PLATORYNCHUS;

EID: 0042313866     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T01-098     Document Type: Article

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