17243
AFSC/ABL: Southeast and Prince William Sound, Alaska Herring Microsatellite data, 2007-2008
AFSC/ABL: Southeast and Prince William Sound, Alaska Herring Microsatellite data, 2007-2008
Data Set
Published / External
12324
Auke Bay Laboratories
Project
Completed
Unknown
Herring is one of the most energy-rich fish in the Alaskan ecosystem, and when populations struggle over time, such as the Lynn Canal population, there is management concern. Prior to 1983, Lynn Canal herring supported a productive sac roe fishery, a bait fishery, and a winter food and bait fishery. All commercial fisheries were closed in 1983 and remain so today. The purpose of this study was to examine the genetic structure of Lynn Canal herring and determine if it was discrete from other collections in southeast Alaska. We used microsatellite DNA to examine both spawning and non-spawning aggregates (collected in two consecutive years) in Lynn Canal, and compared them to two Southeast Alaska populations: Prince of Wales Island (southernmost waters) and Sitka Sound on Baranof Island (outer-coast). In addition we examined two collections from Prince William Sound (approx. 850 km NW) as a means to compare extent of divergence over large tracts of unsuitable spawning habitat. Because the geographic location of Lynn Canal is somewhat isolated and schools are known to over-winter in the area, we hypothesized that Lynn Canal herring experience reduced gene flow. The results of our study showed allele frequencies from 16 loci were highly similar across all collections, including the distant Prince William Sound. This investigation concurs with previous studies that there is a large amount of movement among herring in the Gulf of Alaska. We conclude that Lynn Canal herring are part of a meta-population that is possibly Gulf wide or larger.
This dataset contains herring microsatellite data described in the abstract.
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Theme
ISO 19115 Topic Category
biota
Spatial
Geographic Names Information System
Alaska
Auke Bay Laboratories
Juneau
AK
US
Data Set
MS Excel Spreadsheet
Unknown
Document (digital)
unknown
unknown
unknown
Data Steward
2012-12-18
Person
Wildes, Sharon
sharon.Wildes@noaa.gov
Distributor
2012-12-18
Person
Wildes, Sharon
sharon.Wildes@noaa.gov
Metadata Contact
2012-12-18
Person
MC, Metadata Coordinators
AFSC.metadata@noaa.gov
Originator
2012-12-18
Person
Wildes, Sharon
sharon.Wildes@noaa.gov
Point of Contact
2012-12-18
Person
Wildes, Sharon
sharon.Wildes@noaa.gov
Ground Condition
-147.638889
-134.971944
60.8236111
58.2291667
Lynn Canal; Prince William Sound; Alaska
Range
2007
2008
Unclassified
N/A
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NCEI to be determined
None
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Unknown
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No
yes
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2012-12-18T17:58:27
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2023-05-30T18:10:18
2016-05-18
Alaska Fisheries Science Center
AFSC
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USA
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2016-05-18
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2017-05-18
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collection
multiple species
vertebrates
Empire
Biovitae
Carbon-based lifeforms
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Subphylum
Vertebrata
Superclass
Osteichthyes
Class
Actinopterygii
Subclass
Neopterygii
Infraclass
Teleostei
Superorder
Clupeomorpha
Order
Clupeiformes
Suborder
Clupeoidei
Family
Clupeidae
Subfamily
Clupeinae
Genus
Clupea
Species
pallasii
Pacific herring