Recruitment of age-0 gray triggerfish to benthic structured habitat in the northern gulf of Mexico

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 14-20

  Simmons, Carrie M ^a   Szedlmayer, Stephen T ^b  

^a Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management Council   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; ARTIFICIAL REEF; BENTHOS; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT TYPE; HURRICANE; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC FISH; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SEASONALITY; SPAWNING;

ALABAMA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DAUPHIN ISLAND; GULF OF MEXICO; UNITED STATES;

BALISTES CAPRISCUS;

EID: 79956362657     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00028487.2011.545002     Document Type: Article

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