Population status of white sturgeon in the lower Columbia River within Canada

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1472-1479

  Irvine, Robyn L ^a   Schmidt, Dana C ^a   Hildebrand, Larry R ^a  

^a GOLDER ASSOCIATES LTD   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FINFISH; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION MIGRATION; POPULATION MODELING; SUBPOPULATION; SURVIVAL; TELEOST;

CANADA; COLUMBIA RIVER; NORTH AMERICA;

ACIPENSER TRANSMONTANUS;

EID: 38349018942     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-190.1     Document Type: Article

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