Ageing studies done 50 years apart for an inshore fish species from southern Australia-contribution towards determining current stock status

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-265

  Fowler, Anthony John ^a   Ling, John K ^b  

^a SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^b NONE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Age structure; Ageing methods; Fish age; Otolith; Population truncation; Southern Garfish

Indexed keywords

AGING POPULATION; DATA SET; GROWTH RATE; LABORATORY METHOD; POPULATION STRUCTURE; QUALITY CONTROL; SAMPLING; STOCK ASSESSMENT; STOCK MARKET; TELEOST;

AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

HYPORHAMPHUS MELANOCHIR;

EID: 78149415964     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-010-9659-0     Document Type: Article

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