Distribution and movement of a stocked freshwater fish: Implications of a variable habitat volume for stocking programs

Marine and Freshwater Research

Volumn 62, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1342-1353

  Smith, James A ^a,b   Baumgartner, Lee J ^c   Suthers, Iain M ^a,b   Taylor, Matthew D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b SYDNEY INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (Australia)

^c NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

Author keywords

acoustic tags; CPUE; extraction; Fultons K; habitat availability; hypoxia; Percichthyidae; tracking.

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BIOACOUSTICS; BIOTELEMETRY; BODY CONDITION; CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FISHERY MANAGEMENT; FRESHWATER ENVIRONMENT; GILLNET; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT USE; HYPOXIA; IMPOUNDMENT; MIGRATORY BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; PERCIFORM; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; STOCKING DENSITY; TAGGING; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; TRACKING;

MACQUARIA; MACQUARIA NOVEMACULEATA; PERCICHTHYIDAE;

EID: 80455131342     PISSN: 13231650     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/MF11120     Document Type: Article

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