Modification of a passive gear to sample paddlefish eggs in sandbed spawning reaches of the lower Yellowstone River

North American Journal of Fisheries Management

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 63-72

  Firehammer, Jon A ^a   Scarnecchia, Dennis L ^a   Fain, Steven R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b US Fish and Wildlife National Forensics Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EGG SIZE; FISH; GEAR SELECTIVITY; RESEARCH WORK; RIVER DISCHARGE; SPAWNING GROUND; THALWEG; WATER TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; YELLOWSTONE RIVER;

ACIPENSERIFORMES; POLYODON SPATHULA;

EID: 33749184312     PISSN: 02755947     EISSN: 15488675     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/M05-012.1     Document Type: Article

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