Stock structure of blue threadfin Eleutheronema tetradactylum across northern Australia as inferred from stable isotopes in sagittal otolith carbonate

Fisheries Management and Ecology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 246-257

  Newman, S J ^a   Pember, M B ^a   Rome, B M ^a   Mitsopoulos, G E A ^a   Skepper, C L ^a   Allsop, Q ^b   Saunders, T ^b   Ballagh, A C ^c   Van Herwerden, L ^c   Garrett, R N ^d   Gribble, N A ^d   Stapley, J M ^d   Meeuwig, J J ^e   Moore, B R ^c,f   Welch, D J ^c,d  

^a WESTERN AUSTRALIAN FISHERIES AND MARINE RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Australia)

^b NT Fisheries   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Northern Fisheries Centre   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Connectivity; Fisheries management; Polynemidae; Population subdivision; Stable isotope chemistry

Indexed keywords

CARBON ISOTOPE; CARBONATE; CONNECTIVITY; FINFISH; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; OTOLITH; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; STABLE ISOTOPE;

AUSTRALIA;

ELEUTHEONEMA TETRADACTYLUM; POLYNEMIDAE;

EID: 79952210059     PISSN: 0969997X     EISSN: 13652400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2400.2010.00780.x     Document Type: Article

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