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Where the whales are

Fresh coastal currents meet salty ocean water to form a front where copepods aggregate in dense surface patches, creating feeding hotspots for marine life.

A relatively fresh coastal current carrying tiny marine organisms called copepods flows into the Great South Channel. The current collides with saltier, denser water to form an ocean front. The denser, saltier water sinks beneath the lighter, fresher water. Copepods sinking with the water swim back toward the surface, aggregating in dense patches along the front. (Amy Caracappa-Qubeck, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)

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