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Small Fish Have Large Role in Coastal Carbon Cycle

A study in Scientific Reports, shows that small forage fish, like anchovies, can play an important role in the “biological pump,” the process by which marine life transports carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and surface ocean into the deep sea—where it contributes nothing to current global warming.

The study, by Grace Saba of Rutgers Univ. and Deborah Steinberg of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, reports on data collected on an oceanographic expedition to the California coast during Saba’s graduate studies at VIMS. The expedition, aboard the research vessel Point Sur, was funded by the National Science Foundation.

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