Response to Comments on "Slow adaptation in the face of rapid warming leads to collapse of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery".
Palmer et al and Swain et al suggest that our "extra mortality" time series is spurious. In response, we show that including temperature-dependent mortality improves abundance estimates and that warming waters reduce growth rates in Gulf of Maine cod. Far from being spurious, temperature effects on this stock are clear, and continuing to ignore them puts the stock in jeopardy.
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 350 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101, USA. apershing@gmri.org.
Andrew J
AJ
Pershing
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA.
Michael A
MA
Alexander
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 86 Water Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA.
Christina M
CM
Hernandez
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 350 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101, USA.
Lisa A
LA
Kerr
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 350 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101, USA.
Arnault
A
Le Bris
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 350 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101, USA.
Katherine E
KE
Mills
School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
Janet A
JA
Nye
Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, 60 Bigelow Drive, East Boothbay, ME 04544, USA.
Nicholas R
NR
Record
University of Washington School of Oceanography, 1503 Northeast Boat Street, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
Hillary A
HA
Scannell
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA. Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309, USA.
James D
JD
Scott
Gulf of Maine Research Institute, 350 Commercial Street, Portland, ME 04101, USA.
Graham D
GD
Sherwood
School of Marine Sciences, University of Maine, 5706 Aubert Hall, Orono, ME 04469, USA.
Andrew C
AC
Thomas
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological; D000818:Animals; D005398:Fisheries; D048389:Gadus morhua / Q000502:physiology*; D057232:Global Warming