Economic Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Fisheries and Aquaculture in the Western Indian Ocean: Current Knowledge and Recommendations
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The Indian Ocean (Figure 1) comprises 20% of the World’s surface water, has an austral to tropical temperature gradient, is bounded to the east by the African continent, to the north by the Asian land mass (which includes semi-enclosed seas the Red Sea, Arabian Gulf, Gulf of Thailand and Bay of Bengal), and to the West by SE Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Timor L’Este and Australia). The throughflow between the Indian and Pacific Oceans is known as the Australasian Mediterranean Sea (Tomczak and Godfrey, 2003).
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