A rapid, high-throughput technique for detecting tanner crabs Chionoecetes bairdi illegally taken in Alaska's snow crab fishery

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 620-623

  Smith, Christian T ^a   Grant, W Stewart ^a,b   Seeb, Lisa W ^a  

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

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB FISHERY;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHIONOECETES BAIRDI; CHIONOECETES OPILIO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OPILIO;

EID: 20444448512     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-007.1     Document Type: Article

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