Growth, fecundity, and diets of newly established silver carp in the middle Mississippi River

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 134, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1423-1430

  Williamson, Christopher J ^a   Garvey, James E ^a  

^a SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; DIETARY SHIFT; ELECTROFISHING; FECUNDITY; FISH; GROWTH RATE; PLANKTON;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINUS CARPIO; HYPOPHTHALMICHTHYS MOLITRIX; HYPOPHTHALMICHTHYS NOBILIS;

EID: 33746895868     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T04-106.1     Document Type: Article

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