##  [A Three-Pronged Approach that Leans on Indigenous Knowledge for Northern Fish Monitoring and Conservation](/resource/three-pronged-approach-leans-indigenous-knowledge-northern-fish-monitoring-and) 

Organization

[Concordia University](/organization/concordia-university)

 

 

Resource Type

[Peer reviewed article](/taxonomy/term/37)

 

 

Author(s)

Ella Bowles

Kia Marin

Pamela MacLeod

Dylan Fraser

 

 

Original Authors

Ella Bowles

Kia Marin

Pamela MacLeod

Dylan Fraser

 

 

Resource Date:

2020

 

Page Length

5

 

 

Investigating whether changes within fish populations may result from harvesting requires a comprehensive approach, especially in more data-sparse northern regions. Our study took a three-pronged approach to investigate walleye population change by combining Indigenous knowledge (IK), phenotypic traits, and genomics. We thank Larson et al. (2020) for their critiques of our study; certainly, there are aspects of their critique that are warranted and merit further investigation. However, we argue that their critique is over-stated and misleading, primarily given that (a) one of three prongs of our research, IK, was dismissed in their assessment of our study's conclusions; (b) our Bayesian size-at-age modeling should help to mitigate sample size issues; (c) their re-analysis of our size-at-age data does not actually refute our results; (d) genomic changes that we observed are nascent; (e) the data file that Larson et al. (2020) used for their genomic re-analysis was not correct; and (f) criteria that Larson et al. (2020) use for their genomic re-analysis were not properly justified