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Relationship between the Hake Fishery and a Southerly Sub-surface Return Flow below the Peru Current off the Chilean Coast

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A COMBINED hydrographic and biological investigation has been launched jointly by the Department of Fish and Game of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Chile and the Technical Foreign Aid Program of the Federal Republic of Germany in order to find possible relationships between the migration and behaviour of fish and the changing hydrographic conditions off the Chilean coast.

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BRANDHORST, W. Relationship between the Hake Fishery and a Southerly Sub-surface Return Flow below the Peru Current off the Chilean Coast. Nature 183, 1832–1833 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1831832a0

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