Investment in maturity-at-age and -length in northeast Atlantic cod stocks

Fisheries Research

Volumn 104, Issue 1-3, 2010, Pages 89-99

  Nash, Richard D M ^a   Pilling, Graham M ^b   Kell, Laurence T ^b   Schön, Pieter Jan ^c   Kjesbu, Olav Sigurd ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^c AGRI FOOD AND BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Cod; Gadus morhua; Irish Sea; Maturation; Maturity ogive; North Sea

Indexed keywords

BOREOGADUS; GADUS MORHUA;

EID: 77953285069     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.03.001     Document Type: Article

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