Nature Communications (Jan 2019)

Supplementary stocking selects for domesticated genotypes

  • Ingerid J. Hagen,
  • Arne J. Jensen,
  • Geir H. Bolstad,
  • Ola H. Diserud,
  • Kjetil Hindar,
  • Håvard Lo,
  • Sten Karlsson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-08021-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

Read online

Stocking of hatchery produced fish is widely used to supplement wild fish populations. Here, the authors show that supplementary stocking can unintentionally favour introgressed individuals with domestic genotypes and compromise the fitness of a wild population of Atlantic salmon.