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- 1. Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
- 2. Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada & Ocean Tracking Network, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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TABLE 3 Summary of identified paucities regarding the marine ecology of anadromous alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus), blueback herring (Alosa aestivalis), and American shad (Alosa sapidissima).
| Knowledge gap | Description | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marine movement | Little is understood about marine distribution, habitat preferences, thermal boundaries, and precise migration routes (seasonal patterns) | ASMFC, 2012; Neves, 1981 | |
| Extent of alewife overwintering is unknown | |||
| The cues that influence movement (lunar, environmental, or physical) are understudied | |||
| Effects of climate change | Behavior | Unknown response to changes in food distribution and prey availability | Bi et al., 2021; Bindoff et al., 2022; Behrenfeld & |
| Falkowski, 1997; Jessop, 1975; Jones et al., 1978; Loesch & Lund, 1977; Richardson & Schoeman, 2004; Tsitrin et al., 2022 | |||
| Changing ocean currents and rising water temperatures have unknown consequences on habitat use | |||
| Few assessments on resilience to warming oceans and population-specific eurythermality | |||
| Migration | Unknown effects of sea surface temperature changes on spatial distribution and migration patterns | Jessop, 1975; Loesch & Lund, 1977; Jones et al., 1978; Ogburn et al., 2024; Bi et al., 2021; Tsitrin et al., 2022 | |
| Outdated research on temperature-driven movement | |||
| Population dynamics | Genetic diversity | Genetic integrity and diversity within individual stocks are unknown | Dadswell et al., 1987; Bethoney et al., 2013; Hasselman & Limburg, 2012; Rulifson & Dadswell, 2020; Bozeman Jr & Van Den Ayvle, 1989 |
| Are populations from different rivers genetically distinct? | |||
| Stock mixing | Degree of straying from natal rivers is unknown for blueback | (Bethoney et al., 2013; Dadswell et al., 1987; Rulifson & Dadswell, 2020). | |
| Stock mixing into heterogeneous populations or single-species aggregations during marine migrations is unclear | |||
| Distinguishing alewife from blueback and hybridization | Alewife and blueback are managed as one species due to morphological similarities and spatiotemporal overlap | Bigelow & Schroeder, 1953; Messieh, 1977; Collette & KleinMacphee, 2002; Lynch et al., 2015; Hare et al., 2021 | |
| Inaccurate stock assessments and misinterpretation of population trends due to misidentification | |||
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Published as part of Brown, Caliyena R., Sergio, Ava J. A., Bate, Caitlin S., Koopman, Natalie, Roland, Joshua B., Notman-Grobler, Oscar D. P., Mastrodimitropoulos, Paris M. B., Piczak, Morgan L. & Lennox, Robert J., 2025, A review of migratory Alosidae marine ecology in the northwest Atlantic, pp. 688 in Journal of Fish Biology 106 (3) on page 688, DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15977, http://zenodo.org/record/17003533
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- ASMFC [Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission]. (2012). River herring benchmark stock assessment. Stock Assessment Report 12 - 02, Arlington, Virginia, 1.
- Neves, R. (1981). Offshore distribution of alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, and blueback, Alosa aestivalis, along the Atlantic coast. Fisheries Bullitin of Seattle, 79 (3), 473-485.
- Bi, R., Jiao, Y., Weaver, L. A., Greenlee, B., McClair, G., Kipp, J., Wilke, K., Haas, C., & Smith, E. (2021). Environmental and anthropogenic influences on spatiotemporal dynamics of Alosa in Chesapeake Bay tributaries. Ecosphere, 12 (6), e 03544.
- Bindoff, N. L., Cheung, W., Kairo, J., Aristegui, J., Guinder, V. A., Hallberg, R., Hilmi, N., Jiao, N., Karim, M. S., Levin, L. A., O'Donoghue, S., Purca Cuicapusa, S., Rinkevich, B., Suga, T., Tagliabue, A., & Williamson, P. (2022). Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities. In The ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate: Special report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (pp. 447-588). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009157964.007
- Jessop, B. M. (1975). A review of the American shad (Alosa sapidissima) stocks of the Saint John River, New Brunswick, with particular reference to the adverse effects of hydroelectric developments. Department of the Environment Report No.: MAR / T- 75-6. https://waves-vagues.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/library-bibliotheque/15250.pdf
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- Ogburn, M. B., Legett, H. D., Aguilar, R., Furey, N. B., Heggie, K., Livernois, M. C., & Richie, K. D. (2024). Acoustic telemetry captures the full annual migration of alewife between Chesapeake Bay and the Gulf of Maine. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 745, 115-124.
- Dadswell, M., Melvin, G., Williams, P. J., & Themelis, D. E. (1987). Influences of origin, life history, and chance on the Atlantic Coast migration of American Shad. American Fisheries Society Symposium, 1, 313-330.
- Bethoney, N. D., Schondelmeier, B. P., Stokesbury, K. D. E., & Hoffman, W. S. (2013). Developing a fine scale system to address river herring (Alosa pseudoharengus, A. aestivalis) and American shad (a. sapidissima) bycatch in the U. S. Northwest Atlantic mid-water trawl fishery. Fisheries Research, 141, 79-87.
- Hasselman, D. J., & Limburg, K. E. (2012). Alosine restoration in the 21 st century: Challenging the status quo. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 4 (1), 174-187.
- Rulifson, R. A., & Dadswell, M. J. (2020). Alewife and blueback captured by intertidal weirs of the Inner Bay of Fundy, Canada, display seasonal demographics that suggest multiple migrating stocks. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 12 (6), 441-456.
- Bozeman, E. L., Jr., & Van Den Ayvle, M. J. (1989). Species profiles: life histories and environmental requirements of coastal fishes and invertebrates (South Atlantic) - alewife and blueback herring. US Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Repeport, 82 (11.111), 17.
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- Messieh, N. S. (1977). Population structure and biology of alewives (Alosa Pseudoharengus) and blueback herring (a. aestivalis) in the Saint John River. New Brunswick. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 2 (3), 195-210.
- Lynch, P. D., Nye, J. A., Hare, J. A., Stock, C. A., Alexander, M. A., Scott, J. D., Curti, K. L., & Drew, K. (2015). Projected ocean warming creates a conservation challenge for river herring populations. ICES Journal of Marine Science, 72 (2), 374-387.
- Hare, J. A., Borggaard, D. L., Alexander, M. A., Bailey, M. M., Bowden, A. A., Damon-Randall, K., Didden, J. T., Hasselman, D. J., Kerns, T., & McCrary, R. (2021). A review of the river herring science in support of species conservation and ecosystem restoration. Marine and Coastal Fisheries, 13 (6), 627-664.