Feeding habits of albacore Thunnus alalunga in the transition region of the central North Pacific

Fisheries Science

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 573-579

  Watanabe, Hikaru ^a   Kubodera, Tsunemi ^b   Masuda, Suguru ^c   Kawahara, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FAR SEAS FISHERIES   (Japan)

^b DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^c Shizuoka Prefectural Fisheries Experiment Station   (Japan)

Author keywords

Albacore Thunnus alalunga; Central North Pacific; Feeding habits; Feeding impact on Japanese anchovy; Transition region

Indexed keywords

ANCHOA; CEPHALOPODA; ENGRAULIS; ENGRAULIS JAPONICUS; GONATOPSIS; GONATOPSIS BOREALIS; THUNNUS ALALUNGA;

EID: 4444332049     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2004.00843.x     Document Type: Article

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