Estimating the Relative Contribution of Spring- and Summer-Spawned Cohorts to the Atlantic Coast Bluefish Stock

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1117-1124

  Conover, David O ^a   Gilmore, Todd ^a   Munch, Stephan B ^a  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; RECRUITMENT; SEASONAL VARIATION;

UNITED STATES;

POMATOMUS SALTATRIX;

EID: 0242485391     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T02-047     Document Type: Review

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