This is the raw YKD salinity data for fixed and random plot 2006 - 2019. No attempt has been made for quality control on these data. These data are quality controled using the R code in the file ‘YKDsalinity_QC.R’ to produce the data used for analysis and sharing (‘YKDsalinity_QC.R’). These data should not generally be used or distributed other than when the quality control process is revised and downstream data files need to be recreated (i.e., information is needed from these raw data that is not represented in the quality control files).