Movement patterns of white seabass Atractoscion nobilis tagged along the coast of Baja California, Mexico

This study outfitted wild-caught white seabass (Atractoscion nobilis) with electronic data storage tags (DSTs) to evaluate subsequent movements of adult fish captured along Baja California, Mexico (BC). Cefas G5 DSTs were surgically implanted into 89 wild-caught white seabass ranging in size from 66 to 152 cm TL between La Salina (32.11°N/116.90°W) and San Quintin (30.25°N/115.83°W), BC. Twenty-four tagged individuals (27%) were recaptured between April, 2010 and May, 2017, following a mean time at liberty of 608 days (range = 18–1424 days) and a mean displacement of approximately 125 km (± 173 km; range = 3–720 km) between the point of release and recapture. Tagged white seabass were recaptured between Santa Rosalillita, BC (28.66° N/114.27°W) and Monterey Bay, California (36.65°N/121.86°W), with four individuals reported above the U.S-Mexico border. Collectively, 8547 days of archived data revealed that white seabass spent 95% of the time at depths