Searching for Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) spawning sites in the northwest Gulf of St Lawrence (Canada) using molecular techniques

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 911-918

  Bui, Alice O V ^a,b   Castonguay, Martin ^b   Ouellet, Patrick ^b   Sévigny, Jean Marie ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

depleted groundfish stocks; ichthyoplankton; molecular species identification; spawning components; substock structure

Indexed keywords

BREEDING SITE; EGG; EXPLOITATION; GADOID; ICHTHYOPLANKTON; SPAWNING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CANADA; GULF OF SAINT LAWRENCE;

GADUS MORHUA; GLYPTOCEPHALUS CYNOGLOSSUS; MELANOGRAMMUS; PLEURONECTOIDEI;

EID: 79954555411     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr016     Document Type: Article

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