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X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy as a Tool for Fish Stock Discrimination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

R. Kieser
Affiliation:
Department of the Environment Fisheries and Marine Service Pacific Biological Station Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 5K6 Canada
T. J. Mulligan
Affiliation:
Department of the Environment Fisheries and Marine Service Pacific Biological Station Nanaimo, British Columbia V9R 5K6 Canada
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Abstract

X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy is being used to measure the elemental composition of fish tissues. The elemental data are then subjected to pattern recognition procedures in an attempt to discriminate fish stocks.

Type
X-Ray Spectrometry in Environmental Analysis
Copyright
Copyright © International Centre for Diffraction Data 1975

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