Tropical Flatfish Fisheries

Flatfishes: Biology and Exploitation

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 292-318

  Munroe, Thomas A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Habitats; Subsistence fisheries; Taxonomic composition; Tropical fisheries; Tropical flatfishes

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846686407     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470995259.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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