Age structure, growth and survival rates of the commercial fish Prochilodus nigricans (bocachico) in North-eastern Ecuador

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-77

  Silva, Eddy A ^a,b   Stewart, Donald J ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b ECUAVITAL   (Ecuador)

Author keywords

Ecuadorian Amazon; Otoliths; Prochilodontidae; Scale analysis; von Bertalanffy growth function

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; FINFISH; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; OTOLITH; PRECISION; SCALE READING; SEASONALITY; SURVIVAL;

ECUADOR; SOUTH AMERICA;

PROCHILODUS; PROCHILODUS NIGRICANS;

EID: 33747143165     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9055-y     Document Type: Article

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