Incorporating evolutionary based tools in cephalopod fisheries management

With gradual decline of global finfish resources, fisheries targeting cephalopods expanded. Yet, the stock assessment and management practice are frequently lacking, existing ones often remain poorly suited for cephalopod unique life-history. In light increasing ecological disturbances in marine ecosystems worldwide, assessing exploited species’ status response becomes vital devising effective strategies that would ensure their sustainable management. There is generally scarce understanding way other environmental stressors exert combined effects on dynamic long-term resilience. To end, evolutionary-based population studies inform identity, connectivity adaptive potential natural populations present a opportunity viability stocks. Such have been revolutionized last decade by proliferation next generation sequencing technologies. They offer new avenues expanding our knowledge, especially structure evolutionary responses to shifts pressures. this paper we elaborate how deep genomic insights into demographic fished could improve practice. We also propose common octopus Octopus vulgaris be suitable model species test power tools fishery scientists managers biological questions relevant exploitation.