High variability in the Daily Egg Production Method parameters of an eastern Mediterranean anchovy stock: Influence of environmental factors, fish condition and population density

Fisheries Research

Volumn 117-118, Issue , 2012, Pages 12-21

  Somarakis, Stylianos ^a   Schismenou, Eudoxia ^a,b   Siapatis, Apostolos ^a   Giannoulaki, Marianna ^a   Kallianiotis, Argyris ^c   Machias, Athanassios ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^c Fisheries Research Institute   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Daily specific fecundity; Engraulis encrasicolus

Indexed keywords

ENGRAULIDAE; ENGRAULIS ENCRASICOLUS; THRACIA;

EID: 84856492305     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2010.11.027     Document Type: Article

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