Confirmation of the spawning area of the striped marlin, Tetrapturus audax, in the so-called core area of the eastern tropical Pacific off Mexico

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 238-242

  González Armas, Rogelio ^a   Sosa Nishizaki, Oscar ^b   Funes Rodríguez, René ^a   Levy Pérez, Victor Andrés ^a  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO NACIONAL   (Mexico)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Larvae; Mexico; Spawning area; Striped marlin; Tetrapturus audax

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATERS; PERCID; SPAWNING GROUND;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

TETRAPTURUS AUDAX;

EID: 0345280729     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00102.x     Document Type: Article

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