“…The recent accumulation of long time series of data on fish stock abundance and environmental conditions, coupled with the increased incentive to incorporate environmental variability into fisheries management, provides an opportunity to test how bottom-up and top-down processes influence recruitment variability. Moreover, while stock-recruitment relationships remain widely used in fisheries management even though they remain controversial (Cury, Fromentin, Figuet, & Bonhommeau, 2014), there is increasing evidence that environmental variability needs to be taken into account to predict recruitment and improve the management of commercially important pelagic fish stocks (Britten, Dowd, & Worm, 2016;Harford, Karnauskas, Walter, & Liu, 2017;White et al, 2016).…”