ECESIS.TAREA 5.4. Reproductive phenology and adult migration

[Description of methods used for collection/generation of data] Atlantic blue crab (Callinectes sapidus) sampling was carried out monthly during 2022 and 2023 to collect a representative number of females of different sizes, to investigate the blue crab's gonadal macroscopic and microscopic developrment of four different ecosistems with differents environmental conditions. The relationship betwen the gonadal development and other biological variables collected from each individual and environmental vaiables were established. The crabs were caught in diverse artesanal fishing gears used in the lagoon, all of them being set gears.