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CalCOFI Reports, Vol. 11, 1967 - California Cooperative Oceanic ...

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KEI'OKTS VOLIXI.: SI, 1 JULY 1963 TO YO JUNE 1966 31The Black Sea is tlie most curious habitat of E?tg~nulis.Surface waters are niaintained at such ti lowsalinity that overturii to the bottom does not occurin tlie Black Sea, and exchange of the deepcr waterswith the Mediterranean is limited by the interreiiingsill. As a result the deeper water of the Black Sea isbut slon-ly renewed and is devoid of oxygen belowabout 200 in depth : large concentrations of hydrogensulphide are found beneath this level. Engrazilis istherefore confined to a shallo~r level that is not enriclredby overturn to great depth.The Sea of Japan is fed by a flow from the southof relatively warm and saline water: this flovs upthe eastern boundary of the Sea, is cooled and diluted,and returns as much colder and less saline water.This and the effect of srason givr the Japan Sea awide range of properties, froni the freezing point inthe northwestern region in minter to the warm duesof the Kuroshio in the southeast in summer.The areas inhabited by Engraiilis include not onlythe oceanic areas roughly indicated in Figure 1, butinclude also tlie wry slidlow inslrore watcn tiid bays,lagoons. aiid estuarie\. The T ;ilues of trinper,iture andsalinity that are showii 0<strong>11</strong> P'igurr 1 rqmsriit onlythe oceanic part of Engraulis' habitat : soniewliathiglier ~ n d very iiiach 1owc.r v<strong>11</strong><strong>11</strong>xc~ of salinity andtc mperature n.onld appear if the inshore. lion-oceanicI,:,bit,rts xwre inc.lnded. Xott. also that for thr Baltic,Sortli, and hzor seas only the summer values areshown : apparently E~Q/~YTU/?'s rctreats from theseareas wlieii tliry becoine vciry cold in wintcr. Slurfacetcwperatures in tlie 13:iltic are bctween 0 and '3°C inwinter, in the North Sr:i between 2 and 'i"C', andin the Azov Sea betwec.n 2 and 3°C. It is also noteworthythat Eizgraitlis reinains in the Black Seathrougliout thc n-intc.r when surface teiriperature isabout 8°C.Those figures do not take into account in anycoinpletc way the migrations. either horizontal orvertical, that Engrairlis niay inakc in response toseasonal changes in the environment. Therefore thenlues undoubtedly inc~ludt~ a somewhat wider rniige3028262422072 20-IW18(DWE 160W0z14w 12az3I-4 IOaWnE 8We6AZOV-...-...-...summer only\ r---1i -SLI I '-L.-1ner420-2II winterIL,I0 2 4 6 8 IO 12 14 16 18 20 22 24 26 28 30 32 34 36 38 40 42SALINITYIN PARTS PER MILLEFIGURE 3. Temperature and salinity ranges of areas inhabited by Engraulis encraricholus.

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