Data from: Local cod (Gadus morhua) revealed by egg surveys and population genetic analysis after longstanding depletion on the Swedish Skagerrak coast ...

Dramatic and persistent reductions in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) are common in many coastal areas. While offshore cod stocks still were abundant and productive, the Swedish west coast showed signs of diminishing adult cod abundance at the beginning of the 1980s, where the local cod component was co...

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Main Authors: Svedäng, Henrik, Barth, Julia M. I., Svenson, Anders, Jonsson, Patrik, Jentoft, Sissel, Knutsen, Halvor, André, Carl
Format: Dataset
Language:English
Published: Dryad 2019
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cg10jn5
https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.cg10jn5
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Summary:Dramatic and persistent reductions in Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) are common in many coastal areas. While offshore cod stocks still were abundant and productive, the Swedish west coast showed signs of diminishing adult cod abundance at the beginning of the 1980s, where the local cod component was considered to be extirpated. To survey the present cod spawning activity and stock composition, we initiated egg trawling over two consecutive years (203 hauls in total) in combination with population genetic analyses (425 individually genotyped eggs). Here, we provide evidence of cod spawning at the Swedish Skagerrak coast, suggesting recolonization or that local cod has recovered from a nearly depleted state. Early stage eggs were found inside fjords too far to have been transported by oceanic drift from offshore spawning areas. The cod eggs were genetically similar in early to late life-stages and cluster mainly with the local adult cod, indicating that eggs and adults belong to the same genetic unit. The cod ... : Svedäng et al 2018 Cod samplesGenotype list.Svedäng et al 2018 genotype data.txt ...