Age-dependent distribution of juvenile southern bluefin tuna (Thunnus maccoyii) on the continental shelf off southwest Australia determined by acoustic monitoring

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 151-158

  Honda, Kentaro ^a   Hobday, Alistair J ^b   Kawabe, Ryo ^c   Tojo, Naoki ^a   Fujioka, Ko ^c   Takao, Yoshimi ^d   Miyashita, Kazushi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Acoustic tag; Inshore lumps; Size age dependent distribution; Southern bluefin tuna; Southwest Australia

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; AGE STRUCTURE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; JUVENILE; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; PERCIFORM; PREY SELECTION; SIZE STRUCTURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TAGGING;

AUSTRALIA;

SCOMBRIDAE; THUNNUS MACCOYII;

EID: 77954373661     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2419.2010.00534.x     Document Type: Article

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