Note: Front Cover -- Stock Identification Methods: Applications in Fishery Science -- Copyright Page -- ANNOTATED TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Stock Identification Methods: An Overview -- Chapter 2. Definition of Stocks: An Evolving Concept -- Chapter 3. Fish Migration and the Unit Stock: Three Formative Debates -- Chapter 4. Environmental and Genetic Influences on Stock Identification Characters -- Part II: Life History Traits -- Chapter 5. The Use of Early Life Stages in Stock Identification Studies -- Chapter 6. Life History Parameters -- Part III: Natural Marks-Morphological Analyses -- Chapter 7. Morphometric Landmarks -- Chapter 8. Morphometric Outlines -- Chapter 9. Analyses of Calcified Structures: Texture and Spacing Patterns -- Chapter 10. Meristics -- Part IV: Natural Marks-Environmental Signals -- Chapter 11. Parasites as Biological Tags -- Chapter 12. Otolith Elemental Composition as a Natural Marker of Fish Stocks -- Chapter 13. Fatty Acid Profiles as Natural Marks for Stock Identification -- Part V: Natural Marks-Genetic Analyses -- Chapter 14. Chromosome Morphology -- Chapter 15. Genetic Analysis: Allozymes -- Chapter 16. Mitochondrial DNA -- Chapter 17. Use of Nuclear DNA in Stock Identification: Single-Copy and Repetitive Sequence Markers -- Chapter 18. Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) -- Chapter 19. Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) -- Part VI: Applied Marks -- Chapter 20. Internal and External Tags -- Chapter 21. Electronic Tags -- Chapter 22. Otolith Thermal Marking -- Part VII: Stock Identification Data Analysis -- Chapter 23. Experimental Design and Sampling Strategies for Mixed-Stock Analysis -- Chapter 24. An Introduction to Statistical Algorithms Useful in Stock Composition Analysis. , Chapter 25. Classical Discriminant Analysis, Classification of Individuals, and Source Population Composition of Mixtures -- Chapter 26. Neural Networks Used in Classification with Emphasis on Biological Populations -- Chapter 27. Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Stock Composition -- Chapter 28. Estimation of Movement from Tagging Data -- Part VIII: Application of Stock Identification Data in Resource Management -- Chapter 29. Stock Identification for Conservation of Threatened or Endangered Species -- Chapter 30. The Role of Stock Identification in Formulating Fishery Management Advice -- Chapter 31. Identifying Fish Farm Escapees -- Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Stock IdentificationMethods: Applicationsin Fishery Science -- Stock IdentificationMethods: Applicationsin Fishery Science -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter one - Stock Identification Methods: An Overview -- GLOSSARY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter two - The Unit Stock Concept: Bounded Fish and Fisheries -- 2.1 THE UNIT STOCK IMPERATIVE -- 2.2 OPERATIONAL DEFINITIONS OF UNIT STOCK -- 2.3 FISHING ACROSS BOUNDARIES -- 2.4 MIXED AND SHIFTING STOCKS -- 2.5 COMPLEX LIFE CYCLES -- 2.6 STOCKS AS CLOSED POPULATIONS -- 2.7 NATAL HOMING MECHANISMS -- 2.8 "SELF-RECRUITMENT" IN REEF FISHES -- 2.9 OPEN POPULATIONS -- 2.10 BETWEEN CLOSED AND OPEN POPULATIONS: CONNECTIVITY -- 2.11 WHAT DO WE NEED TO KNOW TO TRACK FISH STOCKS? -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter three - Fishery Management Strategies for Addressing Complex Spatial Structure in Marine Fish Stocks -- 3.1 INTRODUCTION -- 3.2 QUOTA SETTING -- 3.3 SPATIAL MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES -- 3.4 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter four - Quantitative Traits -- SCOPE OF THE CHAPTER -- 4.1 INTRODUCTION -- 4.2 NATURE OF VARIATION IN QUANTITATIVE TRAITS -- 4.3 DISENTANGLING SOURCES OF PHENOTYPIC VARIATION -- 4.4 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter five - The Continuing Role of Life History Parameters to Identify Stock Structure -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 5.1 INTRODUCTION -- 5.2 DISTRIBUTION AND ABUNDANCE -- 5.3 SIZE AND AGE -- 5.4 REPRODUCTION AND RECRUITMENT -- 5.5 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter six - Morphometric Landmarks -- 6.1 INTRODUCTION -- 6.2 METHODOLOGICAL PROTOCOLS -- 6.3 INTERPRETATION OF MORPHOMETRIC DIFFERENCES -- 6.4 DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter seven - Morphometric Outlines -- 7.1 INTRODUCTION -- 7.2 METHODS. , 7.3 INTERPRETATION -- 7.4 CASE STUDIES IN STOCK IDENTIFICATION -- 7.5 DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter eight - Analysis of Growth Marks in Calcified Structures: Insights into Stock Structure and Migration Pathways -- 8.1 INTRODUCTION -- 8.2 METHODOLOGY -- 8.3 CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter nine - Meristics -- 9.1 INTRODUCTION -- 9.2 METHODOLOGY -- 9.3 CASE STUDIES IN STOCK IDENTIFICATION -- 9.4 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter ten - Parasites as Biological Tags -- 10.1 INTRODUCTION -- 10.2 SELECTION OF PARASITES FOR USE AS TAGS -- 10.3 METHODOLOGY -- 10.4 COLLECTION OF HOSTS AND PARASITES -- 10.5 INTERPRETATION OF RESULTS -- 10.6 EXAMPLE CASE STUDIES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter eleven - Chemical Composition of Fish Hard Parts as a Natural Marker of Fish Stocks -- 11.1 PRINCIPLES OF CHEMISTRY APPLICATIONS TO FISH HARD PARTS -- 11.2 METHODOLOGY -- 11.3 CASE STUDIES -- 11.4 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter twelve - Fatty Acid Profiles as Natural Marks for Stock Identification -- 12.1 INTRODUCTION -- 12.2 METHODOLOGY -- 12.3 CASE HISTORIES -- 12.4 DISCUSSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter thirteen - Application of Mitochondrial DNA in Stock Identification -- ABBREVIATIONS -- SCOPE OF THE CHAPTER -- 13.1 INTRODUCTION -- 13.2 METHODS FOR THE ANALYSIS OF MTDNA -- 13.3 FISH STOCK IDENTIFICATION: INSIGHTS FROM MTDNA DATA ANALYSIS -- 13.4 CONCLUSIONS -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- Chapter fourteen - The Nuclear Genome: Neutral and Adaptive Markers in Fisheries Science -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 14.1 INTRODUCTION -- 14.2 METHODOLOGY-THE NUCLEAR "TOOL KIT" FOR STOCK IDENTIFICATION -- 14.3 MATCHING EACH QUESTION WITH THE RIGHT TOOL -- 14.4 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter fifteen - The Use of Early Life Stages in Stock Identification Studies -- 15.1 STOCK DEFINITIONS. , 15.2 ROLE OF EARLY LIFE STAGE INFORMATION IN THE STOCK CONCEPT -- 15.3 USE OF EARLY LIFE STAGES IN STOCK IDENTIFICATION -- 15.4 EXAMPLES OF EARLY LIFE STAGE INFORMATION IN THE DEFINITION OF STOCKS -- 15.5 FUTURE DIRECTIONS AND CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter sixteen - Conventional and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Tags -- 16.1 A HISTORY OF TAGGING AND ITS USE IN STOCK IDENTIFICATION STUDIES -- 16.2 EXTERNAL TAG TYPES -- 16.3 INTERNAL TAG TYPES -- 16.4 CHOOSING THE APPROPRIATE TAG -- 16.5 TAGGING METHODS -- 16.6 FISH MOVEMENT PATTERN AND CONNECTIVITY TAGGING STUDIES -- 16.7 TAGGING DATA ANALYSIS FOR MOVEMENT PATTERN STUDIES -- 16.8 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter seventeen - Acoustic and Radio Telemetry -- 17.1 INTRODUCTION -- 17.2 TECHNOLOGY -- 17.3 ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF ACOUSTIC TELEMETRY -- 17.4 CONSIDERATIONS FOR STUDY DESIGN -- 17.5 DATA ANALYSIS -- 17.6 CASE STUDIES -- 17.7 DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- FURTHER READING -- Chapter eighteen - Estimation of Movement from Tagging Data -- 18.1 INTRODUCTION -- 18.2 DISCRETE TIME/DISCRETE STOCK MODELS -- 18.3 CONTINUOUS TIME/SPACE MODELS -- 18.4 SUMMARY AND CHALLENGES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter nineteen - Telemetry Analysis of Highly Migratory Species -- 19.1 INTRODUCTION -- 19.2 TAGGING STUDY ROAD MAP -- 19.3 SATELLITE LINKED RADIO TRANSMITTERS: A TOOL FOR ALL SCALES BUT NOT ALL CREATURES -- 19.4 ARCHIVAL TAGS: THERE ARE MANY FISH IN THE SEA -- 19.5 GEOLOCATION: WHERE DID MY FISH GO? -- 19.6 LIGHT BASED GEOLOCATION -- 19.7 BEYOND LIGHT -- 19.8 IMPROVING GEOLOCATION: ALGORITHMIC APPROACH -- 19.9 THE STATISTICAL APPROACH: STATE-SPACE MODELS AND THE KALMAN FILTER -- 19.10 BEHAVIOR MODES -- 19.11 BAYESIAN INFERENCE -- 19.12 DEFINING STOCK BOUNDARIES: HOME RANGE AND UTILIZATION DISTRIBUTION. , 19.13 HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS -- 19.14 DEPTH: THE THIRD DIMENSION -- 19.15 SYNTHESIS: FROM OBSERVATION TO INFERENCE AND APPLICATION -- 19.16 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter twenty - Sampling for Interdisciplinary Analysis -- 20.1 INTRODUCTION -- 20.2 BASIC ASPECTS -- 20.3 SAMPLING IN SPACE -- 20.4 SAMPLING IN TIME -- 20.5 SAMPLING IN THE SPAWNING AREA AND SPAWNING TIME -- 20.6 SAMPLE SIZE -- 20.7 APPLYING ALL THE APPROACHES TO THE SAME SPECIMEN -- 20.8 LOGISTICS, OPERATION, AND ORGANIZATION OF THE SAMPLING PROCESS -- 20.9 EXPLORATORY DATA ANALYSIS -- 20.10 CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter twenty one - Simulation Modeling as a Tool for Synthesis of Stock Identification Information -- 21.1 INTRODUCTION -- 21.2 SIMULATION MODELING TO TEST HYPOTHESES REGARDING STOCK STRUCTURE AND MOVEMENT OF FISH -- 21.3 INCORPORATING SPATIAL STRUCTURE AND CONNECTIVITY IN POPULATION DYNAMICS MODELS -- 21.4 CASE STUDIES -- 21.5 OPPORTUNITIES AND LIMITATIONS -- 21.6 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter twenty two - Interdisciplinary Evaluation of Spatial Population Structure for Definition of Fishery Management Units -- 22.1 INTRODUCTION -- 22.2 A PROCESS FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STOCK IDENTIFICATION -- 22.3 CASE STUDIES -- 22.4 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Index.