Relationships between body condition indices and proximate composition in adult walleyes

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1566-1576

  Kaufman, S D ^a   Johnston, T A ^a   Leggett, W C ^b   Moles, M D ^c   Casselman, J M ^b   Schulte Hostedde, A I ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL COMPOSITION; BODY CONDITION; DEMOGRAPHIC TREND; GROWTH RATE; INDEX METHOD; LIPID; MUSCLE; PERCID;

SANDER VITREUS; STIZOSTEDION VITREUM;

EID: 38349042420     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-262.1     Document Type: Article

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