Response to the letter to the editor on Turner (2017)

A response to the LTE commenting on Turner (2017). e00062 The authors of the letter to the editor (LTE; Schueller et al., 2018) raise three objections to the analysis of Turner (2017): (1) using an estimate of MSY (maximum sustainable yield) as a stock management metric; (2) inappropriate analyses; and (3) failure to consider “alternative hypotheses for the putative patterns.” Did the size change with temperature, in general? Yes. Did the analysis show distinction between when fish were over and under a standard metric of fishing intensity? Yes. Perhaps there is another explanation for the trends observed; but the most likely one today is consistent with results from a broad suite of analyses about the effect of warming oceans on organisms (Baudron et al., 2014; Daufresne et al., 2009; Ohlberger, 2013; Pauly & Cheung, 2017; Sheridan & Bickford, 2011). It is inconsistent with other hypotheses mentioned in the paper. The commenters correctly point out that the Y axis in Figure 1 (Turner, 2017) should be “thousand mt,” not “million mt.” I regret the error, and it does not change the results.1 This research was made possible by a grant from The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative. Data are publicly available through the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative Information & Data Cooperative (GRIIDC) at https://data.gulfresearchinitiative.org ( https://doi.org/10.7266/n77d2s57)

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  Open Access•Amy M Schueller, Robert T Leaf et al.•Geo Geography and Environment•2018

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  Open Access•Ralph E Turner•Geo Geography and Environment•2017

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