Efficacy of endangered pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) restoration in Washington from a genomic perspective

Restoration of endangered pinto abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) in the southern Salish Sea (Washington State, USA) began in the mid-2000s, and since 2009, nearly 40,000 hatchery-produced juvenile abalone have been outplanted at 21 restoration sites. We used genotyping by sequencing to evaluate the efficacy of this restoration program from a genomic standpoint.