Long-term stocking practices threaten the original genetic diversity of the southernmost European populations of Atlantic salmon Salmo salar

• Published in: Endangered Species Research
• Main Authors: Almodóvar, Ana, Leal, Sheila, Nicola, Graciela G., Hórreo, José Luis, García-Vázquez, Eva, Elvira, Benigno
• Other Authors: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Inter-Research Science Center 2020
• Subjects: Conservation genetics; Effective population size; Foreign stocking; Genetic variability; Introgression; Population genetics; Salmonidae; Cierva; Atlantic salmon; Salmo salar
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/234566; https://doi.org/10.3354/ESR01029; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100003329; https://doi.org/10.13039/501100004837

Many Atlantic salmon Salmo salar populations in Europe are threatened by previous stocking with foreign hatchery strains. Temporal patterns of genetic characteristics of salmon from northern Spain, the southernmost European populations, were compared before and after species decline and heavy stocki...