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Declining Recruitment and Growth of Shovelnose Sturgeon in the Middle Mississippi River: Implications for Conservation

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Title Declining Recruitment and Growth of Shovelnose Sturgeon in the Middle Mississippi River: Implications for Conservation
Creator Tripp, Sara J Colombo, Robert E Garvey, James E
Description To determine how populations of shovelnose sturgeon Scaphirhynchus platorynchus are changing and may respond to poor environmental conditions, current commercial harvest of black-egg (sexually mature) females, and incidental mortality of males, we require annual information about sex-specific age structure as it relates to the recruitment of new cohorts. We sampled shovelnose sturgeon by use of gill nets (5-cm bar mesh) monthly during 2002-2006 in the Middle Mississippi River between Cairo,...
Date 2009-03-01T08:00:00Z
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Identifier https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/fiaq_pubs/8 https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/context/fiaq_pubs/article/1007/viewcontent/Declining_Recruitment_and_Growth_of_Shovelnose_Sturgeon_in_the_Middle_Mississippi_River__Implications_for_Conservation.pdf
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