Reconciling seascape genetics and fisheries science in three codistributed flatfishes.

ABSTRACT: Uncertainty hampers innovative mixed-fisheries management by the scales at which connectivity dynamics are relevant to management objectives. The spatial scale of sustainable stock management is species-specific and depends on ecology, life history and population connectivity. One valuable approach to understand these spatial scales is to determine to what extent population genetic structure correlates with the oceanographic environment. Here, we compare the level of genetic connectivity in three codistributed and commercially exploited demersal flatfish species living in the North East Atlantic Ocean. Population genetic structure was analysed based on 14, 14 and 10 neutral DNA microsatellite markers for turbot, brill and sole, respectively. We then used redundancy analysis (RDA) to attrib

SUBMITTER: Vandamme S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7896710 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature