Annual and seasonal variability in the size and biological characteristics of the runs of American eel elvers to two Nova Scotia rivers

American Fisheries Society Symposium

Volumn 2003, Issue 33, 2003, Pages 17-36

  Jessop, Brian M ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

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ANGUILLA ROSTRATA;

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