Mixed stock analysis (MSA) - a tool for proper management in fisheries

For natural environment, it is crucial to develop a fishery management plan, outliningconservation and restoration measures. From this point of view, if the fishery is managed as a singleunit (stock), there is a huge potential of overfishing of the less abundant population. In order toachieve population levels that support harvests or to protect a particular vulnerable population fromanthropogenic pressure, the uses of genetic markers information have been proposed in fisherymanagement. Mixed stock analysis uses genetic markers information in several source populations andin a single mixture population to estimate proportional contribution of each source to the mixedpopulation