Genetic refuges for a self-sustained fishery: Experience in wild brown trout populations in the eastern Pyrenees

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 610-616

  Araguas, R M ^a   Sanz, N ^a   Fernandez R ^a   Utter, F M ^b   Pla, C ^a   Garcia Marin J L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Brown trout; Conservation; Genetic refuges; Hatchery introgression; Stocking

Indexed keywords

SALMO TRUTTA;

EID: 55949134938     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0633.2008.00312.x     Document Type: Article

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