Gonadal maturity in wild sturgeons, Huso dauricus, Acipenser mikadoi and A. schrenckii caught near Hokkaido, Japan

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 381-391

  Omoto, Naotaka ^a   Maebayashi, Mamoru ^a   Hara, Akihiko ^b   Adachi, Shinji ^b   Yamauchi, Kohei ^b  

^a Hokkaido Electric Power Co Inc   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amur sturgeon; Japanese (Sakhalin) sturgeon; Japanese coast; kaluga; occurrence

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; ICHTHYOFAUNA; MATURATION; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HOKKAIDO; JAPAN;

ACIPENSER; ACIPENSER MEDIROSTRIS; ACIPENSER MIKADOI; ACIPENSER MULTISCUTATUS; ACIPENSER SCHRENCKII; ACIPENSERIDAE; HUSO DAURICUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 3943053485     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:EBFI.0000035434.57848.54     Document Type: Article

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