The abundance of juvenile yellowtail (Seriola quinqueradiata) near the Kuroshio: The roles of drifting seaweed and regional hydrography

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 351-362

  Uehara, Shinji ^a,d   Taggart, Christopher T ^b   Mitani, Takumi ^a   Suthers, Iain M ^c  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Abundance distribution model; Drifting seaweed; Juvenile yellowtail; Kuroshio; Sargassum; Seriola quinqueradiata

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COASTAL WATER; FISH; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HYDROGRAPHY; JUVENILE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; SEAWEED; SPATIAL VARIATION;

KUROSHIO CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

SARGASSUM; SARGASSUM SP.; SERIOLA QUINQUERADIATA;

EID: 33746810574     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2005.00382.x     Document Type: Article

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