Spatial and temporal patterns of walleye pollock (Theragra chalcogramma) spawning in the eastern Bering Sea inferred from egg and larval distributions

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 107-120

  Bacheler, Nathan M ^a,c   Ciannelli, Lorenzo ^a   Bailey, Kevin M ^b   Duffy Anderson, Janet T ^b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drift; Spawning; Stock structure; Theragra chalcogramma; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE VARIATION; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; LARVAL TRANSPORT; PERCIFORM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPAWNING; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

POLLACHIUS; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 77954360239     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2009.00531.x     Document Type: Article

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