Regime shifts and recruitment dynamics of snow crab, Chionoecetes opilio, in the eastern Bering Sea

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 22, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 345-354

  Szuwalski, Cody ^a   Punt, André E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Chionoecetes opilio; Eastern Bering Sea; Recruitment; Regime shift; Snow crab

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; CRAB; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FOOD AVAILABILITY; NURSERY GROUND; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SURVIVAL;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84880400426     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: 13652419     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fog.12026     Document Type: Article

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