Silver eel (Anguilla anguilla) population dynamics and production in the River Shannon, Ireland

Ecology of Freshwater Fish

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 181-192

  Macnamara, Ruairí ^a   Mccarthy, T Kieran ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Anguilla; DIDSON; Downstream migration; Population model; Seasonality; Silver eel production

Indexed keywords

ANGUILLA; ANGUILLA ANGUILLA;

EID: 84897584714     PISSN: 09066691     EISSN: 16000633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eff.12028     Document Type: Article

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