Evaluation of electrofishing and fyke netting for collecting black carp in small ponds

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 277-280

  Basler, Matthew C ^a,b   Schramm Jr , Harold L ^a  

^a Mississippi Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit   (United States)

^b MACTEC Engineering Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CYPRINID; DETECTION METHOD; ELECTROFISHING; FISHING GEAR; INTRODUCED SPECIES; POND CULTURE; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SNAIL; WATER TEMPERATURE;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

CYPRINUS CARPIO; GASTROPODA; MYLOPHARYNGODON PICEUS;

EID: 33845704493     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-119.1     Document Type: Article

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