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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Journal of Fish Biology<BR>Volume 74 Issue 1, Pages
270 - 277<BR>Published Online: 19 Jan 2009</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>DOI
10.1111/j.1095-8649.2008.02124.x <BR></DIV></FONT>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=4>Sardine Sardinops sagax and anchovy Engraulis
encrasicolus larvae avoid regions with low dissolved oxygen concentration in the
northern Benguela Current system</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><BR>A. Kreiner*†, E. K. Stenevik‡ W. Ekau§
<BR> * National Marine Information and Research Center, Ministry of
Fisheries and Marine Resources, P. O. Box 912, Swakopmund, Namibia ,
‡ Institute for Marine Research, P. O. Box 1870 Nordnes, N-5817 Bergen, Norway
and § Centre for Tropical Marine Ecology, Fahrenheitstrasse 6,
D-28359 Bremen, Germany <BR>Correspondence to †Tel.: +264 64
4101000; fax: +264 64 404385; email: akreiner@mfmr.gov.na
<BR><BR><STRONG>ABSTRACT</STRONG><BR>Larvae of sardine Sardinops sagax and
anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus in the northern Benguela upwelling system were
distributed predominantly in waters with dissolved oxygen concentrations >2·0
ml l−1 and oxygen saturations >75%.<BR><BR> </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>