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Lagrangian Fronts and Coherent Structures Favorable for Fishery and Foraging Strategy of Top Marine Predators

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Lagrangian fronts (LFs) in the ocean are defined as boundaries between surface waters with strongly different values of Lagrangian indicators. They can be accurately detected in a given velocity field by computing different Lagrangian indicators for synthetic tracers. We report here our results on connection of the LFs with fishing grounds and catch locations. Imposing on the altimetry-based Lagrangian maps available catch data on Pacific saury and neon flying squid in the region of the North Western Pacific with one of the richest fisheries in the world, it is shown that the LFs could serve as a new indicator for potential fishing grounds. It is shown statistically that the catch locations are not randomly distributed over the region but concentrated mainly along the strong LFs where productive cold waters of the Oyashio Current, warmer waters of the southern branch of the Soya Current, and waters of warm-core Kuroshio eddies converge. Electronic tagging and tracking of marine animals and seabirds provides a new source of information on their foraging behavior and its relationship with the marine environment. It is discussed how some top marine predators as great frigates, elephant seals, and Mediterranean fin whales could be able to track somehow mesoscale and submesoscale Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) and use them in the foraging strategy and to feed on. Possible biophysical reasons for aggregation of food near strong LFs and LCSs are discussed.

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    Sergey V. Prants, Michael Yu. Uleysky & Maxim V. Budyansky

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Prants, S.V., Uleysky, M.Y., Budyansky, M.V. (2017). Lagrangian Fronts and Coherent Structures Favorable for Fishery and Foraging Strategy of Top Marine Predators. In: Lagrangian Oceanography. Physics of Earth and Space Environments. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53022-2_8

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