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Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations

William E. Ricker
- Vol. 191, pp 1-382
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Growth, morphometrics, size at maturity, sexual dimorphism and condition index of Austropotamobius torrentium Schrank

TL;DR: Analyses of the weight–length relationship of A. torrentium revealed that males gained weight faster than females, due to an increased growth of chelae of males larger than 50 mm, which is assumed to be the size of sexual maturity of males.
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Did trawling on the brood stock contribute to the collapse of alaska's king crab?

TL;DR: The purpose of the study was to conduct a rigorous examination of existing data in order to evaluate the relative likelihood that the collapse of the Bristol Bay red king crab population was caused by human fishing instead of natural mortality.
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Declivity in steelhead (Oncorhynchus mykiss) recruitment at the Keogh river over the past decade

TL;DR: Recruitment scenarios based on survival histories during freshwater and marine life stages indicated that adult recruits are currently below replacement and unsustainable if conditions contrive to be unsustainable.
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Seasonal, inverse cycling of length- and age-at-recruitment in the diadromous gobies Sicydium punctatum and Sicydium antillarum in Dominica, West Indies

TL;DR: An 18-month field study of temporal pattern and interrelationships of size- and age-at-recruitment for two diadromous hill-stream gobies in Dominica, West Indies found both size and age recruits to vary seasonally, but the relationship of size to age is complex.