“…Considerable effort has been made to measure the extent to which these stocks represent biological populations and/or genetic demes; the answer remains equivocal. Early studies of hemoglobin protein markers found significant frequency differences among geographic locations (Cross & Payne, 1978; Frydenberg, Møller, Nævdal, & Sick, 1965; Gjøsæter, Jørstad, Nævdal, & Thorkildsen, 1992; Møller, 1968; Sick, 1965a,b), although selection and temperature differences have since explained many of these results (Jamieson & Birley, 1989; Mork & Sundnes, 1985). Trans‐Atlantic differences are evident in protein loci (Jamieson, 1967; Mork, Ryman, Ståhl, Utter, & Sundnes, 1985), mitochondrial cytochrome b (Carr & Marshall, 1991a; Sigurgíslason & Árnason, 2003), and nuclear DNA markers (Pogson, Mesa, & Boutilier, 1995), although results at local scales remain ambiguous.…”