Stock Identification Methods: Applications in Fishery Science

Stock Identification Methods, 2e, continues to provide a comprehensive review of the various disciplines used to study the population structure of fishery resources. It represents the worldwide experience and perspectives of experts on each method, assembled through a working group of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. The book is organized to foster interdisciplinary analyses and conclusions about stock structure, a crucial topic for fishery science and management.

Technological advances have promoted the development of stock identification methods in many directions, resulting in a confusing variety of approaches. Based on central tenets of population biology and management needs, this valuable resource offers a unified framework for understanding stock structure by promoting an understanding of the relative merits and sensitivities of each approach.

Describes 18 distinct approaches to stock identification grouped into sections on life history traits, environmental signals, genetic analyses, and applied marksFeatures experts' reviews of benchmark case studies, general protocols, and the strengths and weaknesses of each identification methodReviews statistical techniques for exploring stock patterns, testing for differences among putative stocks, stock discrimination, and stock composition analysisFocuses on the challenges of interpreting data and managing mixed-stock fisheries

Foreword Introduction

1. Stock Identification Methods: An Overview

2. The Unit Stock Concept: Bounded Fish and Fisheries

3. Fishery Management Strategies for Addressing Complex Spatial Structure in Marine Fish Stocks

Geographic Variation

Life History Traits

4. Quantitative Traits

5. The continuing role of life history parameters to identify stock structure

Morphology

6. Morphometric Landmarks

7. Morphometric Outlines

8. Analysis of growth marks in calcified structures: insights into stock structure and migration pathways

9. Meristics

Environmental Signals

10. Parasites as Biological Tags

11. Chemical Composition of Fish Hard Parts as a Natural Marker of Fish Stocks

12. Fatty Acid Profiles as Natural Marks for Stock Identification

Genetic Analyses

13. Application of Mitochondrial DNA in Stock Identification

14. The Nuclear Genome: Neutral and Adaptive Markers in Fisheries Science

Movement and Mixing

15. The use of early life stages in stock identification studies

16. Conventional and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags

17. Acoustic and Radio Telemetry

18. Estimation of Movement from Tagging Data

19. Telemetry Analysis of Highly Migratory Species

Interdisciplinary Analyses

20. Sampling for Interdisiplinary Analysis

21. Simulation Modeling as a Tool for Synthesis of Stock Identification Information

22. Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Spatial Population Structure for Definition of Fishery Management Units