Use of parasite tags in delineating stocks of white hake (Urophycis tenuis) from the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence and Cape Breton Shelf

Trophic polymorphism in brook charr revealed by diet, parasites and morphometrics

“…Furthermore, the weak overlap of parasite canonical scores of fish from both lakes suggested that there were no fish movement between the two basins and that brook charr belonged to two well‐defined populations. Parasites have been successfully used in identification of fish stocks and have corroborated data on stock discrimination based on tagging, genetic, morphometric and meristic measurements (Khan & Tuck, 1995; Melendy et al , 2005; Marques et al , 2006).…”

Macroparasites as biological tags for stock identification of the bluemouth, Helicolenus dactylopterus (Delaroche, 1809) in Portuguese waters

“…As fish only become infected when conditions are suitable for the transmission of the parasite (MacKenzie and Abaunza, 2005), qualitative and quantitative differences in the parasite fauna have proved to be successful in the discrimination of different fish stocks from different geographical localities (Sardella and Timi, 2004;Melendy et al, 2005;McClellan and Melendy, 2007;MacKenzie et al, 2008;Santos et al, 2009). They are considered to be more appropriate than artificial tags for certain groups of species, such as deep sea fishes (MacKenzie and Abaunza, 2005), and have been effective in the separation of rockfishes stocks (Moles et al, 1998;Marcogliese et al, 2003;Oliva and Gonzalez, 2004;González and Oliva, 2006).…”

The stock structure of grey mackerel Scomberomorus semifasciatus in Australia as inferred from its parasite fauna

“…The frequent occurrences of parasites in fish present an opportunity to use them as biological markers to explore the stock structure of the fish (see MacKenzie, 2002;Melendy et al, 2005;MacKenzie and Abaunza, 1998;MacKenzie et al, 2008;. In theory, if the number and type of parasites of two groups of fish are similar they are likely to have had a common history.…”