Intertidal habitat use, population characteristics, movement, and exploitation of striped bass in the inner Bay of Fundy, Canada

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-32

  Rulifson, Roger A ^a   McKenna, Sean A ^b   Dadswell, Michael J ^c  

^a EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries   (United States)

^c ACADIA UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCH COMPOSITION; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; EXPLOITATION; HABITAT USE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MOVEMENT; PERCIFORM; POPULATION MIGRATION; SAMPLING; WEIR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BAY OF FUNDY; CANADA; MINAS BASIN; NORTH AMERICA; NOVA SCOTIA;

MORONE; MORONE SAXATILIS;

EID: 41349110660     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T06-174.1     Document Type: Article

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