Diet composition of young-of-the-year bluefish in the lower Chesapeake Bay and the coastal ocean of Virginia

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 135, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 371-378

  Gartland, James ^a   Latour, Robert J ^a   Halvorson, Aimee D ^a   Austin, Herbert M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; DIETARY SHIFT; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISH; FORAGING BEHAVIOR;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; CHESAPEAKE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

AMPHIPODA; ANCHOA HEPSETUS; ANCHOA MITCHILLI; ATHERINIDAE; BREVOORTIA TYRANNUS; CALLINECTES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); ENGRAULIDAE; GAMMARUS; INVERTEBRATA; MENIDIA; MENIDIA MENIDIA; MORONE AMERICANA; MORONE SAXATILIS; PISCES; POMATOMUS SALTATRIX;

EID: 33845711354     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T05-033.1     Document Type: Article

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