Abalone recruitment data from Baja California and Baja California Sur, Mexico in 2019

Abstract

Abalone support commercial and recreational fishery, however their population have decline dramatically since 1950's. To understand the recruitment of abalone populations, standarized abalone recruitment modules made of half cinder blocks inside cages were deployed in Baja California and Baja California Sur, Mexico. 12 cages were deployed at three sites (i.e., El Rosario, Isla Natividad and La Bocana) in Mexico. The abundances of abalone and invertebrates found in the cages were checked after 12months. This dataset presents all the information collected from the cages deployed at three sites (El Rosario, Isla Natividad and La Bocana) in Baja California and Baja California Sur, Mexico.

For a complete list of measurements, refer to the full dataset description in the supplemental file 'Dataset_description.pdf'. The most current version of this dataset is available at: https://www.bco-dmo.org/dataset/907383