Fish stocking density impacts tank hydrodynamics

Aquaculture

Volumn 254, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 370-375

  Lunger, Angela ^a   Rasmussen, Michael R ^b   Laursen, Jesper ^b   McLean, Ewen ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Dispersion number; Hydraulic residence time; Hydrodynamics; Red drum; Rhodamine

Indexed keywords

FISH; FLUOROMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; STOCKING DENSITY;

ANIMALIA; SCIAENOPS; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 33646127777     PISSN: 00448486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.aquaculture.2005.10.023     Document Type: Article

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