Data from: Timing is everything: fishing‐season placement may represent the most important angling‐induced evolutionary pressure on Atlantic salmon populations ...

• Main Authors: Harvey, Alison C., Tang, Yongkai, Wennevik, Vidar, Skaala, Øystein, Glover, Kevin A.
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2018
• Subjects: harvest; Salmo salar; fishing; sex marker; water flow; Norway; Atlantic salmon
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.r258f9q; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.r258f9q

Fisheries‐induced evolution can change the trajectory of wild fish populations by selectively targeting certain phenotypes. For important fish species like Atlantic salmon, this could have large implications for their conservation and management. Most salmon rivers are managed by specifying an angling season of predetermined length based on population demography, which is typically established from catch statistics. Given the circularity of using catch statistics to estimate demographic parameters, it may be difficult to quantify the selective nature of angling and its evolutionary impact. In the River Etne in Norway, a recently installed trap permits daily sampling of fish entering the river, some of which are subsequently captured by anglers upstream. Here, we used 31 microsatellites to establish an individual DNA profile for salmon entering the trap, and for many of those subsequently captured by anglers. These data permitted us to investigate time of rod capture relative to river entry, potential body ... : Datasets for MS Dryad RepositoryAll raw data used in the analyses ...