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Author Analytic: Lewis, Robert M., E. Peter H. Wilkens and Herbert R. Gordy.
Center: CCFHR
Team: Beaufort
Title Analytic: A description of young Atlantic menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, in the White Oak River estuary, North Carolina.
Journal Title: Fishery Bulletin
Date of Publication: 1972
Volume ID: 70
Location In Work: 115-118.
 Location URL: http://www.ccfhr.noaa.gov/documents/reprint343.pdf
Notes: CCFHR reprint #343, Public Domain
Keywords: CCFHR, Resource and land use, Estuaries, NOAA Fisheries
 Type: Journal Article
 Abstract: Atlantic menhaden exhibit three different stages--larva, prejuvenile, and juvenile--during their stay in the estuary. For specimens collected from the White Oak River estuary, N. C., the length-weight relationship was loge ì = -8.1104 + 3.6050 (loge X) for larvae, loge ì = -16.9638 + 6.3083 (loge X) for prejuveniles, and loge ì = -5.2298 + 3.1452 (loge X) for juveniles, where Y = weight in mg and X = length in mm. Larvae and prejuveniles concentrated in the low salinity-freshwater zone upstream. Juveniles tended to move downstream toward the higher salinity water. Condition factors of larvae and prejuveniles increased toward the higher salinity zone.
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