The potential use of caudal thorns as a non-invasive ageing structure in the thorny skate (Amblyraja radiata Donovan, 1808)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 77, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 265-272

  Gallagher, Michael J ^a   Green, Marianne J ^b   Nolan, Conor P ^a  

^a Irish Sea Fisheries Board ^*  (Ireland)

^b Killybegs Fishermen's Organisation   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Age; Bias; Caudal thorns; Skate; Vertebrae

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; BONE; FISH; SIZE STRUCTURE;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND;

AMBLYRAJA RADIATA;

EID: 33751242320     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-006-9114-4     Document Type: Article

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