Genetic analysis redraws the management boundaries for the European sprat

• Published in: Evolutionary Applications
• Main Authors: Quintela, María, Kvamme, Cecilie, Bekkevold, Dorte, Nash, Richard D. M., Jansson, Eeva, Sørvik, Anne Grete, Taggart, John B., Skaala, Øystein, Dahle, Geir, Glover, Kevin A.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
• Subjects: Original Articles; Arctic; Kattegat; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7463317/; https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12942

Sustainable fisheries management requires detailed knowledge of population genetic structure. The European sprat is an important commercial fish distributed from Morocco to the Arctic circle, Baltic, Mediterranean, and Black seas. Prior to 2018, annual catch advice on sprat from the International Co...