Projected ocean warming creates a conservation challenge for river herring populations

Patrick D. Lynch1‡*, Janet A. Nye2, Jonathan A. Hare1, Charles A. Stock3, Michael A. Alexander4, James D. Scott4, Kiersten L. Curti5, and Katherine Drew6 NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Narragansett, RI 02882, USA School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305, USA NOAA NMFS, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, 1050 N. Highland Street, Suite 200 A-N, Arlington, VA 22201, USA *Corresponding author: tel: +1 301 427 8151; fax: +1 301 713 1875; e-mail: [email protected] Present address: NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD 20910, USA.