List of experiments and the corresponding oceanic conditions used in each simulation for the main experiments on the effect of the presence of the Kuroshio large meander and swimming sensitivity experiments.

For the meander experiments, release dates were 2–4 days before the new moon of each month during the spawning period in the selected years, and for the sensitivity cases, v-larvae were released in the Kuroshio south of Japan during the peak recruitment season. The numbers listed in the parenthesis of the North Equatorial Current (NEC) region are the mean NEC bifurcation latitudes. Both Kuroshio large meander (LM) and no large meander years (NLM) were used in the simulations.