Spatial distribution, energetic status, and food habits of eastern bering sea age-0 walleye pollock

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 138, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 497-505

  Moss, Jamal H ^a   Farley, Edward V ^a   Feldmann, Angela M ^a   Ianelli, James N ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGE CLASS; BIOENERGETICS; BODY MASS; BODY SIZE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GADOID; GROWTH RATE; LIPID; MORTALITY; OVERWINTERING; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL REGIME; WATER COLUMN; WATER TEMPERATURE; WEIGHT;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; BRISTOL BAY; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

EUPHAUSIIDAE; THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 78651449792     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T08-126.1     Document Type: Article

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