Detailed demographic analysis of an Epinephelus polyphekadion spawning aggregation and fishery

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 421, Issue , 2011, Pages 183-198

  Rhodes, Kevin L ^a   Taylor, Brett M ^b   McIlwain, Jennifer L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AT HILO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUAM   (Guam)

Author keywords

Age and growth; Epinephelidae; Fish spawning aggregations; Gonochorism; Micronesia; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIOMASS; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; DEMOGRAPHIC METHOD; FISHERY PRODUCTION; GROWTH RESPONSE; MORTALITY; OTOLITH; PERCIFORM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); REEF; SEAWATER; SPAWNING; WATER TEMPERATURE;

CAROLINE ISLANDS; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; POHNPEI [(STT) FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA];

EPINEPHELINAE; EPINEPHELUS POLYPHEKADION;

EID: 78751665940     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps08904     Document Type: Article

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