Genetic analysis redraws the management boundaries for the European sprat

• Published in: Evolutionary Applications
• Main Authors: Quintela, Maria, Kvamme, Cecilie, Bekkevold, Dorte, Nash, Richard D M, Jansson, Eeva, Sørvik, Anne Grete, Taggart, John B, Skaala, Øystein, Dahle, Geir, Glover, Kevin A
• Other Authors: Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries, Norwegian Institute of Marine Research, Technical University of Denmark, Institute of Aquaculture, orcid:0000-0002-3843-9663
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2020
• Subjects: ddRADseq; fisheries; management; population structure; SNPs; Sprattus sprattus; Arctic; Kattegat; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30932; https://doi.org/10.1111/eva.12942; http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/30932/1/eva.12942.pdf

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...