A method to improve size estimates of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) and Atka mackerel (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) consumed by pinnipeds: Digestion correction factors applied to bones and otoliths recovered in scats

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 498-508

  Tollit, Dominic J ^a   Heaslip, Susan G ^a   Zeppelin, Tonya K ^b   Joy, Ruth ^a   Call, Katherine A ^b   Trites, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BONE; DIGESTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; OTOLITH;

EUMETOPIAS JUBATUS; OTARIIDAE; PANTHERA LEO; PINNIPEDIA; PLEUROGRAMMUS MONOPTERYGIUS; POLLACHIUS VIRENS; SCATOPHAGIDAE (FISHES); STIZOSTEDION VITREUM; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3543128913     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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