A new growth model for red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) that accommodates seasonal and ontogenic changes in growth rates
The red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) is a popular gamefish found throughout the coastal waters of the Gulf of Mexico and along the eastern seaboard as far north as Massachusetts. Juvenile red drum grow extremely rapidly, especially during the warmer months, but adults grow very little. In fact, the change in growth with age is so abrupt that the standard von Bertalanffy curve has proven inadequate— the predicted lengths of younger fish are generally too large and the predicted lengths of older fish too small (see Beckman et al., 1988; Murphy and Taylor, 1990).
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Format: | article biblioteca |
Language: | English |
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2002
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Subjects: | Biology, Fisheries, Management, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/31052 |
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