Growth estimates from tagged white sturgeon suggest that ages from fin rays underestimate true age in the Kootenai River, USA and Canada

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 895-903

  Paragamian, Vaughn L ^a   Beamesderfer, Raymond C P ^b  

^a IDAHO DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^b S P Cramer and Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; GROWTH; TAGGING;

CANADA; UNITED STATES;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER TRANSMONTANUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0141453379     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-120     Document Type: Article

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