Event Title

What Are the Odds? Reframing Fitness in a Changing Environment

Presentation Abstract

Fitness – the propensity to survive and reproduce in a particular environment – is a function of different environments and genotypes. Fitness incorporates the notion of probability, but in fisheries management questions about hatcheries, these probabilities are rarely presented or discussed. This contributes to lack of transparency and confusion between the potential biological effects of artificial propagation and policy positions about the level of acceptable risk. Here we present a knowledge-based, Bayesian assessment tool that describes overall and disaggregated probabilities of loss of fitness from three different mechanisms associated with different salmon hatchery scenarios: antagonistic selection in hatchery and wild environments, relaxation of selection from the wild, and effects of small population size. Hatchery scenarios were based on an extensive review of anadromous hatchery programs in the Pacific Northwest and range from highly intensive intervention in salmonid life-cycles, such as captive breeding programs, to those where there is little intervention. We compare these results with examples of habitat change on fitness driven by society’s needs for development and transportation. We conclude by describing a framework for integrating management decisions about the potential effects of habitat change and hatchery production on fitness that is necessary for salmon recovery.

Session Title

General species and food webs

Conference Track

Species and Food Webs

Conference Name

Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2016 : Vancouver, B.C.)

Document Type

Event

Start Date

2016 12:00 AM

End Date

2016 12:00 AM

Location

2016SSEC

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)

Biological fitness--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.); Hatchery fishes--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)

Geographic Coverage

Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)

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Text

Language

English

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What Are the Odds? Reframing Fitness in a Changing Environment

2016SSEC

Fitness – the propensity to survive and reproduce in a particular environment – is a function of different environments and genotypes. Fitness incorporates the notion of probability, but in fisheries management questions about hatcheries, these probabilities are rarely presented or discussed. This contributes to lack of transparency and confusion between the potential biological effects of artificial propagation and policy positions about the level of acceptable risk. Here we present a knowledge-based, Bayesian assessment tool that describes overall and disaggregated probabilities of loss of fitness from three different mechanisms associated with different salmon hatchery scenarios: antagonistic selection in hatchery and wild environments, relaxation of selection from the wild, and effects of small population size. Hatchery scenarios were based on an extensive review of anadromous hatchery programs in the Pacific Northwest and range from highly intensive intervention in salmonid life-cycles, such as captive breeding programs, to those where there is little intervention. We compare these results with examples of habitat change on fitness driven by society’s needs for development and transportation. We conclude by describing a framework for integrating management decisions about the potential effects of habitat change and hatchery production on fitness that is necessary for salmon recovery.