The South African chokka squid,Loligo reynaudi,spawns both inshore (≤70 m) and on the mid-shelf (71–130 m) of the Eastern Agulhas Bank. The fate ofthese deep-spawned hatchlings and their potentialcontribution to recruitment is as yet unknown.Lagrangian ROMS-IBM (Regional Ocean ModellingSystem-Individual-Based Model) simulations confirm westward transport of inshore and deep-spawn…