Do blue crab spawning sanctuaries in North Carolina protect the spawning stock?

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 581-592

  Eggleston, David B ^a   Bell, Geoffrey W ^a   Searcy, Steven P ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BREEDING POPULATION; CRAB; FISHING EFFORT; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HARVESTING; MATURATION; MIGRATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPAWNING GROUND; STOCK ASSESSMENT; TRAWLING;

NORTH CAROLINA; PAMLICO SOUND; UNITED STATES;

CALLINECTES SAPIDUS;

EID: 77954352890     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-070.1     Document Type: Article

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