Coastal cold core eddies of the East Australian Current and their fisheries potential

东澳大利亚洋流形成的近海漩涡可以从新南威尔士州中部海岸的斯托克顿湾吸收沿海水。这个地区据说是渔业育苗区。它通常是由冷的、营养丰富的水上涌而来，这些水可以在这些漩涡中播下幼鱼和它们的食物。我们将测试这样的涡流是否会培育浮游生物群落，然后将它们运回海岸，从而得出一个有用的指数，用于预测未来的渔业，并向海洋公园规划者解释生物多样性的变化。我们将对过去15年厄尔尼诺-南方涛动事件和气候变化期间的这些涡旋进行前所未有的详细普查。

Offshore eddies shed by the East Australian Current can draw in coastal water from the Stockton Bight on the NSW central coast. This area is anecdotally recognized as a fisheries nursery area. It is often enriched by upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich waters which can seed these eddies with larval fish and their food. We will test if such eddies nurture plankton communities and then transport them back to the coast, giving rise to a useful index for predicting future fisheries, as well as explaining biodiversity changes to marine park planners. We will provide a census of these eddies during El Nino-Southern Oscillation events and climate change of the past 15 years in unprecedented detail.