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

东澳大利亚海流产生的离岸涡流可以从新南威尔士州中部海岸的斯托克顿湾吸入沿海海水。这个地区被认为是一个渔业苗圃区。它经常被寒冷的、富含营养的沃茨的上升流所丰富，这些海水可以在这些漩涡中播种幼鱼和它们的食物。我们将测试这种漩涡是否会滋养浮游生物群落，然后将它们运回海岸，从而产生一个有用的指数，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。我们将提供在厄尔尼诺-南方涛动事件和过去15年的气候变化在前所未有的细节这些漩涡的普查。

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.