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Productivity of the Fisheries North and South of the Suez Canal

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THE work of the great oceanographical expeditions, and the experience of the fisheries administrations in the different countries, have alike gone to show that living things are more abundant in temperate and polar seas, than in those of the tropics and subtropics.

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  1. "Some Hydrographic Data from the Suez Canal, 1928–1929", Fisheries Research Section, Bull. No. 1. Govt. Press, Cairo, 1930.

  2. "Berichte der Comm. Für Erforschung der &ocaron;stliche Mittelmers." 1893.

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WIMPENNY, R. Productivity of the Fisheries North and South of the Suez Canal. Nature 130, 1000–1001 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/1301000b0

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