17243 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. Loaded by batch 3861, 12-18-2012 17:58 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4302-3195 Distributor 2012-12-18 Person Wildes, Sharon sharon.Wildes@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4302-3195 Originator 2012-12-18 Person Wildes, Sharon sharon.Wildes@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4302-3195 Point of Contact 2012-12-18 Person Wildes, Sharon sharon.Wildes@noaa.gov https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4302-3195 Ground Condition -147.638889 -134.971944 60.8236111 58.2291667 Lynn Canal; Prince William Sound; Alaska Range 2007 2008 Unclassified N/A The Data set is still being analyzed and will not be available for distribution until it has been finalized and all QA/QC practices have been performed. Contact the Data Point of Contact for estimated time of release. User must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Data should not be used beyond the limits of the source scale. Acknowledgement of NOAA, as the source from which these data were obtained, in any publications and/or other representations of these data is suggested. https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/ NCEI to be determined None Contact the dataset POC for full QA/QC methodology Yes Unknown Yes No yes unknown no delay To Be Determined unknown IT Security and Contingency Plan for the system establishes procedures and applies to the functions, operations, and resources necessary to recover and restore data as hosted in the Western Regional Support Center in Seattle, Washington, following a disruption. Contact the dataset POC for full methodology gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:17243 Doug Turnbull 2012-12-18T17:58:27 SysAdmin InPortAdmin 2026-03-04T19:17:27 2016-05-18 Alaska Fisheries Science Center AFSC 7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Building 4 Seattle WA 98115 USA https://www.afsc.noaa.gov 0700-1700 Pacific Time 1001 Public No No 2016-05-18 1 Year 2017-05-18 None 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