Lake Sturgeon, Acipenser fulvescens, movements in Rainy Lake, Minnesota and Ontario

Canadian Field-Naturalist

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-82

  Adams Jr , W Eugene ^a   Kallemeyn, Larry W ^b   Willis, David W ^a  

^a SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acipenser fulvescens; Biotelemetry; Lake Sturgeon; Minnesota; Ontario; Rainy Lake

Indexed keywords

BIOTELEMETRY; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; FINFISH; LAKE; MOVEMENT; SPAWNING;

CANADA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; ONTARIO [CANADA]; SEINE RIVER; UNITED STATES; WESTERN EUROPE;

ACIPENSER FULVESCENS; RATTUS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 34547811033     PISSN: 00083550     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22621/cfn.v120i1.249     Document Type: Article

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