Presentation Abstract
Advances in Understanding the Drivers of Change and Potential Conservation Actions for Pacific Herring in the Salish Sea
This session offered the latest results from researchers in the USA and Canada based upon cutting-edge approaches to understanding what limits Pacific herring populations in the Salish Sea, which are in decline in many places, and what management actions can be taken to ensure their recovery and conservation.
Margaret (Megsie) Siple described the importance of population diversity in Pacific herring for maintaining their overall stability (i.e., portfolio effects), and presented population model results showing increased adult mortality and age truncation (i.e., loss of older ages) over recent decades.
Lorenz Hauser showed the most recent genetic microsatellite support for metapopulation structure in Puget Sound herring, i.e., subpopulations going extinct and recolonizing, driven by a combination of spawn timing and geographic distance, potentially with learned social migration behavior.
Herring genetic diversity based upon spawn timing was further supported by Eleni Petrou’s work; Petrou used an advanced restriction site-associated (RAD) sequencing approach to determine that genetic differentiation increases with difference in spawn timing. Petrou’s results also supported the idea that populations with similar spawn timing are connected by migration.
Finally, two presentations shed new light on potential challenges to early life stages of herring. Brooke Love presented recent research showing that high temperatures result in larval mortality and abnormalities, while adding acidified conditions (high pCO2 levels) to high temperatures additionally led to respiratory difficulties, suggesting that both warming and acidification are factors that negatively affect herring development.
Louisa Harding presented results showing for the first time that herring are also negatively impacted by stormwater runoff: inability to mobilize yolk energy stores, and cardiac stress when exposed to stormwater. Together, these results fill some major gaps in our understanding about limitations to recovery for herring in the Salish Sea, and suggest potential ways forward.
Session Title
Session Description: Advances in Understanding the Drivers of Change and Potential Conservation Actions for Pacific Herring in the Salish Sea
Keywords
Pacific herring
Conference Track
SSE11: Species and Food Webs
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2018 : Seattle, Wash.)
Document Type
Event
SSEC Identifier
SSE11: Session Description
Start Date
6-4-2018 1:30 PM
End Date
6-4-2018 3:00 PM
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
conference proceedings; presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Pacific herring--Monitoring--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Fish stock assessment--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
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Language
English
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Advances in Understanding the Drivers of Change and Potential Conservation Actions for Pacific Herring in the Salish Sea
Advances in Understanding the Drivers of Change and Potential Conservation Actions for Pacific Herring in the Salish Sea
This session offered the latest results from researchers in the USA and Canada based upon cutting-edge approaches to understanding what limits Pacific herring populations in the Salish Sea, which are in decline in many places, and what management actions can be taken to ensure their recovery and conservation.
Margaret (Megsie) Siple described the importance of population diversity in Pacific herring for maintaining their overall stability (i.e., portfolio effects), and presented population model results showing increased adult mortality and age truncation (i.e., loss of older ages) over recent decades.
Lorenz Hauser showed the most recent genetic microsatellite support for metapopulation structure in Puget Sound herring, i.e., subpopulations going extinct and recolonizing, driven by a combination of spawn timing and geographic distance, potentially with learned social migration behavior.
Herring genetic diversity based upon spawn timing was further supported by Eleni Petrou’s work; Petrou used an advanced restriction site-associated (RAD) sequencing approach to determine that genetic differentiation increases with difference in spawn timing. Petrou’s results also supported the idea that populations with similar spawn timing are connected by migration.
Finally, two presentations shed new light on potential challenges to early life stages of herring. Brooke Love presented recent research showing that high temperatures result in larval mortality and abnormalities, while adding acidified conditions (high pCO2 levels) to high temperatures additionally led to respiratory difficulties, suggesting that both warming and acidification are factors that negatively affect herring development.
Louisa Harding presented results showing for the first time that herring are also negatively impacted by stormwater runoff: inability to mobilize yolk energy stores, and cardiac stress when exposed to stormwater. Together, these results fill some major gaps in our understanding about limitations to recovery for herring in the Salish Sea, and suggest potential ways forward.
Comments
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