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A global, historical database of tuna, billfish, and saury larval distributions
Buenafe, K.C.V.; Everett, J.D.; Dunn, D.C.; Mercer, J.; Suthers, I.M.; Schilling, H.T.; Hinchliffe, C.; Dabalà, A.; Richardson, J. (2022). A global, historical database of tuna, billfish, and saury larval distributions. Scientific Data 9(1): 423. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01528-7
In: Scientific Data. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 2052-4463; e-ISSN 2052-4463
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Buenafe, K.C.V.; Everett, J.D.; Dunn, D.C.; Mercer, J.; Suthers, I.M.; Schilling, H.T.; Hinchliffe, C.; Dabalà, A.; Richardson, A.J. (2024). Author correction: A global, historical database of tuna, billfish, and saury larval distributions. Scientific Data 11(1): 29. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02860-2, more
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  • Buenafe, K.C.V.
  • Everett, J.D.
  • Dunn, D.C.
  • Mercer, J.
  • Suthers, I.M.
  • Schilling, H.T.
  • Hinchliffe, C.
  • Dabalà, A.
  • Richardson, J.
Abstract
    Knowing the distribution of fish larvae can inform fisheries science and resource management in several ways, by: 1) providing information on spawning areas; 2) identifying key areas to manage and conserve; and 3) helping to understand how fish populations are affected by anthropogenic pressures, such as overfishing and climate change. With the expansion of industrial fishing activity after 1945, there was increased sampling of fish larvae to help better understand variation in fish stocks. However, large-scale larval records are rare and often unavailable. Here we digitize data from Nishikawa et al. (1985), which were collected from 1956–1981 and are near-global (50°N–50°S), seasonal distribution maps of fish larvae of 18 mainly commercial pelagic taxa of the families Scombridae, Xiphiidae, Istiophoridae, Scombrolabracidae, and Scomberesocidae. Data were collected from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans. We present four seasonal 1° × 1° resolution maps per taxa representing larval abundance per grid cell and highlight some of the main patterns. Data are made available as delimited text, raster, and vector files.
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