Cusk (Brosme brosme) and climate change: assessing the threat to a candidate marine fish species under the US Endangered Species Act

Jonathan A. Hare1*, John P. Manderson2, Janet A. Nye3, Michael A. Alexander4, Peter J. Auster5,6, Diane L. Borggaard7, Antonietta M. Capotondi4, Kimberly B. Damon-Randall7, Eric Heupel5, Ivan Mateo7, Loretta O’Brien8, David E. Richardson1, Charles A. Stock9, and Sarah T. Biegel7 NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Narragansett, RI 02818, USA NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Highlands, NJ 07732, USA Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory, Atlantic Ecology Division, Narragansett, RI 02818, USA NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO 80305-3328, USA Department of Marine Sciences and Northeast Underwater Research Technology and Education Center, University of Connecticut, Groton, CT 06340, USA Sea Research Foundation – Mystic Aquarium, Mystic, CT 06355, USA NOAA NMFS Northeast Regional Office, Gloucester, MA 01930-2276, USA NOAA NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA 02543, USA NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Princeton, NJ 08540-6649, USA *Corresponding Author: tel: +1 401 782 3295; fax: +1 401 782 3201; e-mail: jon.hare@noaa.gov Present address: 65 Winterberry Rd, Saunderstown, RI 02874, USA