Biophysical changes in marine ecosystems of the Arctic and subarctic sectors of the Atlantic
and Pacific are now evident, driven primarily by sea ice loss, ocean warming and increases …

Harp seals are the most abundant marine mammal in the north Atlantic. As an ice obligatory
predator, they reflect changes in their environment, particularly during a period of climatic …

The great “northern” cod (Gadus morhua) stock, formerly among the world's largest and the
icon for depletion and supposed nonrecovery of marine fishes, is making a major comeback …

Gene flow has tremendous importance for local adaptation, by influencing the fate of de
novo mutations, maintaining standing genetic variation and driving adaptive introgression …

Pelagic seabirds are exposed to an array of potential threats during the non-breeding
period, and effective management of these threats on a large scale requires knowledge of …

Abstract The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) Roadmap is the general
framework aimed toward implementing an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries (EAF) in NAFO …

Despite their importance in marine food webs, much has yet to be learned about the spatial
ecology of small seabirds. This includes the Leach's storm-petrel Oceanodroma leucorhoa …

The Northwest Atlantic cod stocks collapsed in the early 1990s and have yet to recover,
despite the subsequent establishment of a continuing fishing moratorium. Efforts to …

Capelin is a short-lived forage fish species that underwent a population collapse in 1991 on
the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf, Canada (Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization …

Timing reproduction to overlap with peak prey availability is vital to success for many
species. This may be especially true for species that rely on one or a few prey species that …