Habitat use, site fidelity, and movement of adult striped bass in a southern New Jersey estuary based on mobile acoustic telemetry

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1344-1355

  Ng, Clare L ^a,b   Able, Kenneth W ^a   Grothues, Thomas M ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Marine Academy of Science and Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ADULT; BIOTELEMETRY; ESTUARINE ENVIRONMENT; HABITAT USE; MOVEMENT; PERCIFORM; SEASONAL VARIATION; SITE FIDELITY;

GREAT BAY ESTUARY; MULLICA RIVER; NEW JERSEY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

MORONE; MORONE SAXATILIS;

EID: 35848956113     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-250.1     Document Type: Article

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