Life History, Maternal Quality and the Dynamics of Harvested Fish Stocks

Knowledge of offspring production (recruitment) is fundamental to understanding and forecasting the dynamics of a population. In this thesis, I focus on two demographic characteristics of fish stocks that are important to recruitment: population density and age structure. First, populations produce...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Venturelli, Paul Anthony
Other Authors: Shuter, Brian
Language:en_ca
Published: 2009
Subjects:
age
cod
egg
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1807/19305