Author:Beckley, LE; Connell, ADDate:1996Several authors have stated that southward transport of the early life-history stages of Pomatomus saltatrix also known as the elf or shad occurs by passive drift in the Agulhas Current, a strong western boundary current which flows southwards ...Read more
Author:Harrison, TDDate:Feb 2001Fish length + or - weight relationships, which describe mathematically the correlation between fish length and weight, are useful for converting length observations into weight estimates to provide some measure of biomass (Froese 1998). In ...Read more
Author:Harrison, TDDate:2002The biogeography of the fishes of 42 South African estuaries was investigated using an extensive synoptic dataset collected over the period 1993-99. Fish species richness was low on the west (Atlantic Ocean) coast and high in estuaries on the ...Read more