Saving the sea cucumbers: Using population genomic tools to inform fishery and conservation management of the Fijian sandfish Holothuria (Metriatyla) scabra

• Kelly T. Brown ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kelly.brown@usp.ac.fj

  Affiliation Discipline of Marine Studies, School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7233-0795

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• Paul C. Southgate,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Discipline of Marine Studies, School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, School of Science, Technology and Engineering, and Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia

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• Chinthaka A. Hewavitharane,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Division of Fisheries, Coastal Fisheries Programme, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems, Pacific Community, Suva, Fiji

  Affiliation Discipline of Marine Studies, School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5549-6248

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• Monal M. Lal

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Discipline of Marine Studies, School of Agriculture, Geography, Environment, Ocean and Natural Sciences, The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, School of Science, Technology and Engineering, and Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research, University of the Sunshine Coast, Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia

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