Some biological parameters of the little tuna Euthynnus alletteratus (Rafinesque, 1810) in Tunisian waters

Cahiers de Biologie Marine

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-40

  Hajjej, Ghailen ^a   Hattour, Abdallah ^a   Allaya, Hassan ^b   Jarboui, Othman ^a   Bouain, Abderrahman ^c  

^a INSTITUT NATIONAL DES SCIENCES ET TECHNOLOGIES DE LA MER   (Tunisia)

^b FACULTÉ DES SCIENCES DE TUNIS   (Tunisia)

^c University of Sfax   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Euthynnus alletteratus; Length weight relationships; Reproductive biology; Sex ratio; Tunisian waters

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ZONE; CONDITION FACTOR; LENGTH-WEIGHT RELATIONSHIP; PERCIFORM; REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY; SEX RATIO; SIZE AT MATURITY; SPAWNING; SUSTAINABILITY;

TUNISIA;

EUTHYNNUS; EUTHYNNUS ALLETTERATUS; SCOMBRIDAE;

EID: 79551611121     PISSN: 00079723     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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