Estimation of potential impacts from offshore liquefied natural gas terminals on red snapper and red drum fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico: An alternative approach

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 655-677

  Gallaway, Benny J ^a   Gazey, William J ^b   Cole, John G ^a   Fechhelm, Robert G ^a  

^a LGL Ecological Research Associates Inc   (United States)

^b WJ Gazey Research   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; FECUNDITY; FISHERY MODELING; HINDCASTING; LARVA; NATURAL GAS; OFFSHORE STRUCTURE; SEAWATER; STOCK ASSESSMENT; YIELD;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; GULF OF MEXICO;

LUTJANUS CAMPECHANUS; SCIAENOPS; SCIAENOPS OCELLATUS;

EID: 34250207724     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-062.1     Document Type: Article

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