Observations on the spawning distribution and biology of offshore Pacific hake (Merluccius productus)

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports

Volumn 38, Issue , 1997, Pages 147-157

  Saunders, Mark W ^a   Mcfarlane, Gordon A ^a  

^a PACIFIC BIOLOGICAL STATION   (Canada)

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