摘要：Knowing the distribution of fsh larvae can inform fsheries 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 fsh populations are afected by anthropogenic pressures, such as overfshing and climate change . With the expansion of industrial fshing activity after 1945, there was increased sampling of fsh larvae to help better understand variation in fsh 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 fsh larvae of 18 mainly commercial pelagic taxa of the families Scombridae, Xiphiidae, Istiophoridae, Scombrolabracidae, and Scomberesocidae . Data were collected from the Pacifc, 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 fles .
