Absolute abundance of southern bluefin tuna estimated by close-kin mark-recapture

Southern bluefin tuna is a highly valuable, severely depleted species, whose abundance and productivity have been difficult to assess with conventional fishery data. Here we use large-scale genotyping to look for parent–offspring pairs among 14,000 tissue samples of juvenile and adult tuna collected...

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Main Authors: Bravington, Mark V., Grewe, Peter M., Davies, Campbell R.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114523/