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Miettinen A, Romakkaniemi A, Dannewitz J, Pakarinen T, Palm S, Persson L, Östergren J, Primmer CR, Pritchard VL. Temporal allele frequency changes in large-effect loci reveal potential fishing impacts on salmon life-history diversity. Evol Appl 2024; 17:e13690. [PMID: 38681510 PMCID: PMC11046039 DOI: 10.1111/eva.13690] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2023] [Revised: 02/26/2024] [Accepted: 03/27/2024] [Indexed: 05/01/2024] Open
Abstract
Fishing has the potential to influence the life-history traits of exploited populations. However, our understanding of how fisheries can induce evolutionary genetic changes remains incomplete. The discovery of large-effect loci linked with ecologically important life-history traits, such as age at maturity in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), provides an opportunity to study the impacts of temporally varying fishing pressures on these traits. A 93-year archive of fish scales from wild Atlantic salmon catches from the northern Baltic Sea region allowed us to monitor variation in adaptive genetic diversity linked with age at maturity of wild Atlantic salmon populations. The dataset consisted of samples from both commercial and recreational fisheries that target salmon on their spawning migration. Using a genotyping-by-sequencing approach (GT-seq), we discovered strong within-season allele frequency changes at the vgll3 locus linked with Atlantic salmon age at maturity: fishing in the early season preferentially targeted the vgll3 variant linked with older maturation. We also found within-season temporal variation in catch proportions of different wild Atlantic salmon subpopulations. Therefore, selective pressures of harvesting may vary depending on the seasonal timing of fishing, which has the potential to cause evolutionary changes in key life-history traits and their diversity. This knowledge can be used to guide fisheries management to reduce the effects of fishing practices on salmon life-history diversity. Thus, this study provides a tangible example of using genomic approaches to infer, monitor and help mitigate human impacts on adaptively important genetic variation in nature.
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- Antti Miettinen
- Organismal & Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
- Institute of BiotechnologyUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Freshwater ResearchSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesDrottningholmSweden
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- Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Freshwater ResearchSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesDrottningholmSweden
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- Department of Wildlife, Fish and Environmental StudiesSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesUmeåSweden
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- Department of Aquatic Resources, Institute of Freshwater ResearchSwedish University of Agricultural SciencesDrottningholmSweden
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- Organismal & Evolutionary Biology Research Programme, Faculty of Biological and Environmental SciencesUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
- Institute of BiotechnologyUniversity of HelsinkiHelsinkiFinland
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- Institute for Biodiversity & Freshwater ConservationUniversity of the Highlands & IslandsInvernessUK
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Nevalainen L, Tuomisto J, Haapasaari P, Lehikoinen A. Spatial aspects of the dioxin risk formation in the Baltic Sea: A systematic review. Sci Total Environ 2021; 753:142185. [PMID: 33207481 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142185] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2020] [Revised: 08/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Dioxins have been an inconvenience to the Baltic Sea ecosystem for decades. Although the concentrations in the environment and biota have continuously decreased, dioxins still pose a risk to human health. The risk and its formation vary in different parts of the Baltic Sea, due to variability in the environmental and societal factors affecting it. This paper presents a systematic literature review and knowledge synthesis about the regional dioxin risk formation in four sub-areas of the Baltic Sea and evaluates, whether systemic approach changes our thinking about the risk and its effective management. We studied the dioxin flux from atmospheric deposition to the Baltic Sea food webs, accumulation to two commercially and culturally important fish species, Baltic herring (Clupea harengus membras) and Baltic salmon (Salmo salar), and further to risk group members of four Baltic countries. Based on 46 studies, we identified 20 quantifiable variables and indexed them for commensurable regional comparison. Spatial differences in dioxin pollution, environmental conditions, food web dynamics, and the following dioxin concentrations in herring and salmon, together with fishing and fish consumption, affect how the final health risk builds up. In the southern Baltic Sea, atmospheric pollution levels are relatively high and environmental processes to decrease bioavailability of dioxins unfavorable, but the growth is fast, which curb the bioaccumulation of dioxins in the biota. In the North, long-range atmospheric pollution is minor compared to South, but the local pollution and slower growth leads to higher bioaccumulation rates. However, based on our results, the most remarkable differences in the dioxin risk formation between the areas arise from the social sphere: the emissions, origin of national catches, and cultural differences in fish consumption. The article suggests that acknowledging spatial characteristics of socio-ecological systems that generate environmental risks may aid to direct local focus in risk management.
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- Lauri Nevalainen
- University of Helsinki, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Kotka Maritime Research Centre, Viikinkaari 1, P.O. Box 65 00014 Helsinki, Finland; University of Helsinki, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Kotka Maritime Research Centre, Keskuskatu 10, 48100 Kotka, Finland Centre, Keskuskatu 7, 48100 Kotka, Finland.
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- Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), Neulaniementie 4, P.O. Box 95 70701 Kuopio, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Kotka Maritime Research Centre, Viikinkaari 1, P.O. Box 65 00014 Helsinki, Finland; University of Helsinki, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Kotka Maritime Research Centre, Keskuskatu 10, 48100 Kotka, Finland Centre, Keskuskatu 7, 48100 Kotka, Finland
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- University of Helsinki, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Kotka Maritime Research Centre, Viikinkaari 1, P.O. Box 65 00014 Helsinki, Finland; University of Helsinki, Ecosystems and Environment Research Programme, Kotka Maritime Research Centre, Keskuskatu 10, 48100 Kotka, Finland Centre, Keskuskatu 7, 48100 Kotka, Finland
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