Data from: Population structure in Atlantic cod in the eastern North Sea-Skagerrak-Kattegat: early life stage dispersal and adult migration

• Main Authors: André, Carl, Svedäng, Henrik, Knutsen, Halvor, Dahle, Geir, Jonsson, Patrik, Ring, Anna-Karin, Sköld, Mattias, Jorde, Per Erik
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Larval drift; philopatric behaviour; population structure; stock; connectivity; genetic assignment; Kattegat; atlantic cod; Gadus morhua
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10255/dryad.107655; https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.m3913

Background: In marine fish species, where pelagic egg and larvae drift with ocean currents, population structure has been suggested to be maintained by larval retention due to hydrographic structuring and by homing of adult fish to natal areas. Whilst natal homing of adults has been demonstrated for...