Spawning of herring: Day or night, today or tomorrow?

Aquatic Living Resources

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 299-306

  Skaret, Georg ^a,b   Nøttestad, Leif ^b   Fernö, Anders ^a,b   Johannessen, Arne ^a   Axelsen, Bjørn Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Herring; Schooling dynamics; Timing of spawning

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; DIEL VARIATION; SCHOOLING BEHAVIOR; SPAWNING;

CLUPEA HARENGUS; GADIFORMES;

EID: 0042696145     PISSN: 09907440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0990-7440(03)00006-8     Document Type: Conference Paper

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