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Elemental fingerprints of southern calamari (Sepioteuthis australis) reveal local recruitment sources and allow assessment of the importance of closed areas
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posted on 2023-05-17, 09:33 authored by Gretta PeclGretta Pecl, Sean TraceySean Tracey, Leonid Danyushevsky, Wotherspoon, S, Moltschaniwskyj, NAMovement of individuals over a range of temporal and spatial scales is a critical process in determining the structure and size of populations. For most marine species, a substantial amount of movement that is responsible for connecting subpopulations occurs when individuals are too small and numerous to be tagged using conventional methods. Using the elemental fingerprints of the statoliths of the squid Sepioteuthis australis and a robust machine learning classification technique, this study determined that newly hatched squid had elemental signatures that exhibited sufficient spatial variation to act as natural tags for natal origin and that elemental signatures can be used to allocate adult squid back to their natal site. Between 55% and 84% of the adult squid caught throughout the east and southeast of Tasmania, Australia, were classified back to an area that is closed to commercial fishing over much of the peak spawning period, and this was the only location with substantive evidence of natal recruitment. Although many studies have demonstrated the potential of this approach to discern connectivity between population units, few studies have successfully done so by then examining the trace element profiles of adults in addition to those of hatchlings as we have demonstrated with S. australis.
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Publication title
Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic SciencesVolume
68Issue
8Pagination
1351-1360ISSN
0706-652XDepartment/School
Institute for Marine and Antarctic StudiesPublisher
Natl Research Council CanadaPlace of publication
Research Journals, Montreal Rd, Ottawa, Canada, Ontario, K1A 0R6Rights statement
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