Sorting Effort for Dungeness Crab Megalopae in CalCOFI Plankton Samples - 2012 & 2015

Two efforts to sort California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) plankton samples by CDFW Scientific Aid staff occurred in 2012 and 2015 with additional identification of archived megalopae sorted from plankton samples made by CDFW staff. CC BY 4.0, Laura Rogers-Bennett as primary data provider, Emily Jones and Amanda Klemmedson credited as sorters, CDFW as citable custodian. Notebook: calcofi.io/workflows/ingest_cdfw_dungeness-crab.html.

Data set contains several tables in Access Database: 1) Site names and years of available data, 2) Daily megalopae count by site and date collected w/dates when no data was collected as blank, 3) Size data in millimeters of megalopae from daily sample includes site and date collected, 4) Average daily temperature during collection period of site and date when no temperature or logger was off average temperature is blank.