Weight-length relationships of 33 demersal fish species from Azores archipelago

Fisheries Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 329-332

  Rosa, A ^a   Menezes, G ^a   Melo, O ^a   Pinho, M R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AZORES   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Azores; Demersal fishes; Longline; Weight length relationships

Indexed keywords

ARCHIPELAGO; DEMERSAL FISH; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; LONGLINING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AZORES; EURASIA; EUROPE; MACARONESIA; PORTUGAL; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

CENTROSCYMNUS CREPIDATER; LEPIDOPUS CAUDATUS; PISCES;

EID: 33751099575     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.05.001     Document Type: Article

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