Migratory behavior of American shad in the York River, Virginia, with implications for estimating in-river exploitation from tag recovery data

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 889-896

  Olney, John E ^a   Latour, Robert J ^a   Watkins, Brian E ^a   Clarke, Douglas G ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUPEOID; EXPLOITATION; FISHERY SURVEY; HYDROPHONE; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; RIVER SYSTEM; SPAWNING GROUND; TAGGING; TELEMETRY;

MATTAPONI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; PAMUNKEY RIVER; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA; YORK RIVER;

ALOSA SAPIDISSIMA;

EID: 33845657398     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-101.1     Document Type: Article

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