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Absolute abundance of southern bluefin tuna estimated by close-kin mark-recapture.
Nature communications - 14 Nov 2016
Bravington Mark V, Grewe Peter M, Davies Campbell R
Abstract excerpt
Southern bluefin tuna is a highly valuable, severely depleted species, whose abundance and productivity have been difficult to assess with conventional fishery data. Here we use large-scale genotyping to look for parent-offspring pairs among 14,000 tissue samples of juvenile and adult tuna collected from the fisheries, finding 45 pairs in total. Using a modified mark-recapture framework where 'recaptures' are kin...
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