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+Abalone RAG Evaluation – Ground Truth Q&A
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+
+1. Question:
+What is the geographical range of the red abalone?
+
+Answer:
+Red abalone range from British Columbia to Baja California, with historically dense populations in central and northern California kelp forests.
+
+---
+
+2. Question:
+What is the typical asymptotic shell length for red abalone?
+
+Answer:
+Tag–recapture studies estimate asymptotic lengths of ~184–232 mm.
+
+---
+
+3. Question:
+How long does it take for a red abalone to reach legal recreational size?
+
+Answer:
+Depending on environment and model, red abalone take 8–20 years to reach the ~178 mm legal size.
+
+---
+
+4. Question:
+What temperature range supports the fastest juvenile red abalone growth?
+
+Answer:
+Mid-teens to high-teens °C support maximum juvenile growth, with mid-size juveniles reaching ~0.1 mm/day.
+
+---
+
+5. Question:
+Who are the major predators influencing abalone population structure?
+
+Answer:
+Sea otters are the dominant predator; others include California sheephead, cabezon, bat rays, octopus, and crabs.
+
+---
+
+6. Question:
+What caused the collapse of the northern California red abalone recreational fishery?
+
+Answer:
+Kelp forest collapse, marine heatwaves, and urchin barrens caused starvation, recruitment failure, and fishery closure.
+
+---
+
+7. Question:
+Why is white abalone considered critically endangered?
+
+Answer:
+Historical heavy fishing and decades of extremely low recruitment reduced densities below recovery thresholds, requiring captive breeding and out-planting.
+
+---
+
+8. Question:
+How does heterozygosity vary among abalone species?
+
+Answer:
+White abalone has the lowest (~0.43%), black and pinto the highest (~1.0%), and red abalone around 0.95%.
+
+---
+
+9. Question:
+Why do pinto abalone suffer fertilization problems?
+
+Answer:
+Low densities cause Allee effects, reducing broadcast-spawning fertilization success.
+
+---
+
+10. Question:
+Why can the von Bertalanffy growth model be inaccurate for red abalone?
+
+Answer:
+It overestimates early growth; flexible models like Richards or Gaussian fit early growth better.
+
+---
+
+11. Question:
+What environmental factor directly causes abalone starvation events?
+
+Answer:
+Large-scale kelp loss from marine heatwaves and urchin barrens.
+
+---
+
+12. Question:
+Why is post-release survival low in abalone restoration efforts?
+
+Answer:
+Predation, limited shelter, and physiological stress lower survival after out-planting.
+