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Advanced approaches to studying the population diversity of marine fishes: New opportunities for fisheries control and management

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Recent conceptual and technological advances now enable fisheries geneticists to detect and monitor the dynamics and distribution of marine fish populations more effectively than ever before. Information on the extent of genetically-based divergence among populations, so-called “population diversity”, is crucial in the quest to manage exploited living resources sustainably since it endows evolutionary potential in the face of environmental change. The generally limited dialogue between scientists, fisheries managers and policy makers, however, continues to constrain integration of population genetic data into tangible policy applications. Largely drawing on the approach and outputs from a European research project, FishPopTrace, we provide an example how the uncovering of marine fish population diversity enables players from genetics, forensics, management and the policy realm to generate a framework tackling key policy-led questions relating to illegal fishing and traceability.

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  1. Russian Federal Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography, Moscow, 107140, Russia

    D. A. Zelenina & A. A. Volkov

  2. European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Maritime Affairs Unit G.04, TP051, 21027, Ispra, VA, Italy

    Ja. Th. Martinsohn

  3. TRACE Wildlife Forensics Network, Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, Edinburgh, EH12 6TS, UK

    R. Ogden

  4. Biological Faculty, Moscow State University, Moscow, 119899, Russia

    I. A. Zelenina

  5. Bangor University, Bangor, UK, LL57 2UW

    G. R. Carvalho

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Published in Russian in Genetika, 2011, Vol. 47, No.12, pp. 1629–1641.

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Zelenina, D.A., Martinsohn, J.T., Ogden, R. et al. Advanced approaches to studying the population diversity of marine fishes: New opportunities for fisheries control and management. Russ J Genet 47, 1444–1455 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1022795411120179

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