Use of saggital otolith shape analysis to discriminate Northeast Atlantic and Western Mediterranean stocks of Atlantic saury, Scomberesox saurus saurus (Walbaum)

Fisheries Research

Volumn 110, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 465-471

  Agüera, Antonio ^a   Brophy, Deirdre ^a  

^a Atlantic Technological University Sligo   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Atlantic; Atlantic saury; Fourier; Mediterranean; Otolith shape; Stocks

Indexed keywords

SCOMBERESOX SAURUS; SCOMBERESOX SAURUS SAURUS;

EID: 79960618926     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2011.06.003     Document Type: Article

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