Spawning habitat of the Atlantic menhaden in Onslow Bay, North Carolina

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue SUPPL. 2, 1999, Pages 22-36

  Checkley Jr , David M ^a   Ortner, Peter B ^b   Werner, Francisco E ^c   Settle, Lawrence R ^d   Cummings, Shailer R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^d SOUTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic menhaden; Brevoortia tyrannus; CUFES; Gulf Stream; Model; Pelagic fish eggs; Recruitment; SABRE; Sampling; Spawning; Transport; Variogram

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CLUPEOID; HYDROGRAPHY; SPAWNING;

UNITED STATES;

BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS;

EID: 0342546518     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00019.x     Document Type: Article

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