Retention of T-bar anchor and dart tags by a wild population of African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus

Fisheries Research

Volumn 92, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 333-339

  Booth, Anthony J ^a   Weyl, Olaf L F ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anchor tags; Catfish; Mark recapture; Maximum likelihood; Tagging comparison

Indexed keywords

CLARIAS GARIEPINUS;

EID: 44749088983     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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