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IN the course of research into the environment of the South African pilchard Sardinops ocellata Pappe, and the maasbanker or horse mackerel Trachurus trachurus Linnaeus, the importance of a knowledge of the surface currents near the commercial fisheries of these fishes off the west coast of South Africa was quickly shown. These two fishes are found in very large shoals quite close to the west coast. Their commercial importance may be gauged from the fact that in the season January–September 1953 some 151,000 tons of pilchards and 93,000 tons of maasbankers worth c. £5 million in finished products (meal, oil and canned fish) were caught in this area.
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CLOWES, A. Inshore Surface Currents on the West Coast of the Union of South Africa. Nature 173, 1003–1004 (1954). https://doi.org/10.1038/1731003b0
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