Spatial versus temporal structure : Implications of inter-haul variation and relatedness in the North-east Atlantic spurdog Squalus acanthias

• Published in: Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
• Main Authors: Thorburn, James, Jones, Rosie, Neat, Francis, Pinto, Cecilia, Bendall, Victoria, Hetherington, Stuart, Bailey, David Mark, Leslie, Noble, Jones, Cath
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Biological Sciences, University of Aberdeen.Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland (MASTS)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: SDG 14 - Life Below Water; coastal; distribution; elasmobranch management; fish; fishing; genetic structure; ocean; relatedness; social interactions; QH301 Biology; Aquatic Science; Ecology; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Scottish Funding Council; HR09011; QH301; Common skate; North East Atlantic; Porbeagle; Squalus acanthias
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2164/12670; https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2922; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85052665036&partnerID=8YFLogxK

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Our thanks go to Gordon Goldie, Willie Kennedy, Stuart Cresswell, and Trevor Ryder for assisting with sample collection, and to Margaret Wallace for her help with all stages of labwork. This work received funding from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland), and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. The spurdog tissue samples collected by CEFAS were part of the European Fisheries Fund project ‘Shark By‐Watch UK’ and two DEFRA‐funded projects: MF047 ‘Spurdog, porbeagle and common skate by‐catch and discard reduction’ and M5201a ‘Assessing the survivability of bycaught porbeagle and spurdog and furthering our understanding of their movement patterns in UK marine waters’. We also thank the anonymous reviewers whose comments helped improve this article. FUNDING This work received funding from the MASTS pooling initiative (The Marine Alliance for Science and Technology for Scotland), and their support is gratefully acknowledged. MASTS is funded by the Scottish Funding Council (grant reference HR09011) and contributing institutions. The spurdog tissue samples collected by CEFAS were part of the European Fisheries Fund project ‘Shark By‐Watch UK’ and two DEFRA‐funded projects: MF047 ‘Spurdog, porbeagle and common skate by‐catch and discard reduction’ and M5201a ‘Assessing the survivability of bycaught porbeagle and spurdog and furthering our understanding of their movement patterns in UK marine waters’. Peer reviewed