Stock Identification Methods. Applications in Fishery Science. Edition No. 2

Table of Contents

Foreword Introduction

1. Stock Identification Methods: An Overview

2. The Unit Stock Concept: Bounded Fish and Fisheries

3. Fishery Management Strategies for Addressing Complex Spatial Structure in Marine Fish Stocks

Geographic Variation

Life History Traits

4. Quantitative Traits

5. The continuing role of life history parameters to identify stock structure

Morphology

6. Morphometric Landmarks

7. Morphometric Outlines

8. Analysis of growth marks in calcified structures: insights into stock structure and migration pathways

9. Meristics

Environmental Signals

10. Parasites as Biological Tags

11. Chemical Composition of Fish Hard Parts as a Natural Marker of Fish Stocks

12. Fatty Acid Profiles as Natural Marks for Stock Identification

Genetic Analyses

13. Application of Mitochondrial DNA in Stock Identification

14. The Nuclear Genome: Neutral and Adaptive Markers in Fisheries Science

Movement and Mixing

15. The use of early life stages in stock identification studies

16. Conventional and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags

17. Acoustic and Radio Telemetry

18. Estimation of Movement from Tagging Data

19. Telemetry Analysis of Highly Migratory Species

Interdisciplinary Analyses

20. Sampling for Interdisiplinary Analysis

21. Simulation Modeling as a Tool for Synthesis of Stock Identification Information

22. Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Spatial Population Structure for Definition of Fishery Management Units

Authors

Steven X. Cadrin Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA, USA. Lisa A. Kerr Gulf of Maine Research Institute, Portland, ME, USA. Lisa Kerr is a fisheries ecologist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (Portland, ME). Lisa is broadly interested in understanding the structure and dynamics of fish populations, with the goal of enhancing our ability to sustainably manage fisheries and ecosystems as a whole. She is particularly motivated to identify complex stock structure and understand the role it plays in the stability and resilience of local and regional populations. Lisa employs a diverse skill set to address critical ecological questions related to population structure that are also directly applicable to fisheries management. Her expertise includes structural analysis of fish hard parts (e.g. otoliths, vertebrae) and the application of the chemical methods (stable isotope, radioisotope, and trace element analysis) to these structures. She also uses mathematical modeling as a tool to understand how biocomplexity within fish stocks (e.g., spatial structure, connectivity, life cycle diversity) impacts their response to natural climatic oscillations, climate change, fishing, and management measures. Stefano Mariani School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford, UK.