TY - JOUR
T1 - Reading the biomineralized book of life
T2 - Expanding otolith biogeochemical research and applications for fisheries and ecosystem-based management
AU - Reis-Santos, Patrick
AU - Gillanders, Bronwyn M.
AU - Sturrock, Anna M.
AU - Izzo, Christopher
AU - Oxman, Dion S.
AU - Lueders-Dumont, Jessica A.
AU - Hüssy, Karin
AU - Tanner, Susanne E.
AU - Rogers, Troy
AU - Doubleday, Zoë A.
AU - Andrews, Allen H.
AU - Trueman, Clive
AU - Brophy, Deirdre
AU - Thiem, Jason D.
AU - Baumgartner, Lee J.
AU - Willmes, Malte
AU - Chung, Ming-Tsung
AU - Charapata, Patrick
AU - Johnson, Rachel C.
AU - Trumble, Stephen
AU - Heimbrand, Yvette
AU - Limburg, Karin E.
AU - Walther, Benjamin D.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all participants in the otoliths as biomarkers session at the 2021 World Fisheries Conference. Thank you also to Flora Cordoleani and Corey Phillis for letting us use their otolith data to generate Fig. . AMS is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (MR/V023578/1), BDW by an award from the National Science Foundation (OCE-1924011), JL-D by a TMON MarineGEO postdoctoral fellowship and a STRI postdoctoral fellowship, SET by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) (UIDB/04292/2020, CEECIND/02710/2021), and ZAD by an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (FT190100244). We also thank Nina Wootton for her assistance with the graphical abstract.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2023/6
Y1 - 2023/6
N2 - Chemical analysis of calcified structures continues to flourish, as analytical and technological advances enable researchers to tap into trace elements and isotopes taken up in otoliths and other archival tissues at ever greater resolution. Increasingly, these tracers are applied to refine age estimation and interpretation, and to chronicle responses to environmental stressors, linking these to ecological, physiological, and life-history processes. Here, we review emerging approaches and innovative research directions in otolith chemistry, as well as in the chemistry of other archival tissues, outlining their value for fisheries and ecosystem-based management, turning the spotlight on areas where such biomarkers can support decision making. We summarise recent milestones and the challenges that lie ahead to using otoliths and archival tissues as biomarkers, grouped into seven, rapidly expanding and application-oriented research areas that apply chemical analysis in a variety of contexts, namely: (1) supporting fish age estimation; (2) evaluating environmental stress, ecophysiology and individual performance; (3) confirming seafood provenance; (4) resolving connectivity and movement pathways; (5) characterising food webs and trophic interactions; (6) reconstructing reproductive life histories; and (7) tracing stock enhancement efforts. Emerging research directions that apply hard part chemistry to combat seafood fraud, quantify past food webs, as well as to reconcile growth, movement, thermal, metabolic, stress and reproductive life-histories provide opportunities to examine how harvesting and global change impact fish health and fisheries productivity. Ultimately, improved appreciation of the many practical benefits of archival tissue chemistry to fisheries and ecosystem-based management will support their increased implementation into routine monitoring. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
AB - Chemical analysis of calcified structures continues to flourish, as analytical and technological advances enable researchers to tap into trace elements and isotopes taken up in otoliths and other archival tissues at ever greater resolution. Increasingly, these tracers are applied to refine age estimation and interpretation, and to chronicle responses to environmental stressors, linking these to ecological, physiological, and life-history processes. Here, we review emerging approaches and innovative research directions in otolith chemistry, as well as in the chemistry of other archival tissues, outlining their value for fisheries and ecosystem-based management, turning the spotlight on areas where such biomarkers can support decision making. We summarise recent milestones and the challenges that lie ahead to using otoliths and archival tissues as biomarkers, grouped into seven, rapidly expanding and application-oriented research areas that apply chemical analysis in a variety of contexts, namely: (1) supporting fish age estimation; (2) evaluating environmental stress, ecophysiology and individual performance; (3) confirming seafood provenance; (4) resolving connectivity and movement pathways; (5) characterising food webs and trophic interactions; (6) reconstructing reproductive life histories; and (7) tracing stock enhancement efforts. Emerging research directions that apply hard part chemistry to combat seafood fraud, quantify past food webs, as well as to reconcile growth, movement, thermal, metabolic, stress and reproductive life-histories provide opportunities to examine how harvesting and global change impact fish health and fisheries productivity. Ultimately, improved appreciation of the many practical benefits of archival tissue chemistry to fisheries and ecosystem-based management will support their increased implementation into routine monitoring. Graphical abstract: [Figure not available: see fulltext.]
KW - Archival tissue
KW - Calcified structure
KW - Chemistry
KW - Fisheries management
KW - Life-history
KW - Otolith
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U2 - 10.1007/s11160-022-09720-z
DO - 10.1007/s11160-022-09720-z
M3 - Review article
SN - 1573-5184
VL - 33
SP - 411
EP - 449
JO - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
JF - Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries
IS - 2
ER -
