Population characteristics and assessment of overfishing for an exploited paddlefish population in the lower Tennessee River

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1285-1298

  Scholten, George D ^a,b   Bettoli, Phillip W ^a  

^a TENNESSEE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TENNESSEE WILDLIFE RESOURCES AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; GILLNET; OVERFISHING; POPULATION ECOLOGY; RECRUITMENT; RIVER DISCHARGE; SIZE STRUCTURE;

KENTUCKY LAKE; NORTH AMERICA; TENNESSEE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

POLYODON SPATHULA;

EID: 27144505129     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-161.1     Document Type: Article

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