Geolocated fish spawning habitats
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2024-05-22
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Scientific Data
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Fish spawning locations are a crucial input into fisheries management and conservation plans, and many stocks are especially sensitive to the environmental conditions within these localized zones. Globally collated data on spawning locations across many species has been unavailable, hindering global stock assessments and analyses of sustainable development and global environmental change. To address this, we created a geocoded fish spawning dataset using qualitative spawning information from FishBase and Science and Conservation of Fish Aggregations (SCRFA). We cleaned and geocoded the spawning locations of 1,045 marine fish species into 2,931 regions. Each spawning region is defined by one or more polygons, and most spawning regions are associated with spawning months. The resulting dataset covers oceans globally. This dataset will be useful to scientists studying marine fish population dynamics and their interactions with the physical environment on regional to large scales.
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This article was originally published in Scientific Data. The version of record is available at: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03348-3. © The Author(s) 2024
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Oremus, K.L., Rising, J., Ramesh, N. et al. Geolocated fish spawning habitats. Sci Data 11, 521 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03348-3