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State of the marine environment off South Africa: July 2008

Please note: 1. This report has not been peer-reviewed; 2. The conditions of use outlined in the report are superseded by the conditions specified by the License field in this metadata record; 3. The contact information included in the report is superseded by the contact information that can be found in the Responsible Parties field of this metadata record. This is the fourth in a series of informal biannual reports introduced in December 2006, intended to provide an overview of marine environmental conditions off South Africa. The reports are based on data from a variety of sources, including web sources, satellite sensors, the South African Weather Service, MCM's coastal and moored instruments and MCM's research cruises and inherent to all of these there is an inevitable lag between the time of data capture and the time when the data first become available for use. The lags are all different. For example, wind data from the Cape Point lighthouse is updated monthly, the moored...

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.15712023
Simulated advection patterns of Engraulis encrasicolus and Sardinops sagax larvae across South Africa's inshore Marine Protected Areas

Larval anchovy and sardine dispersal patterns in South Africa's exclusive economic zone (2010 - 2014) by Rasehlomi et al. (2025), published in Frontiers in Marine Science, investigates the dispersal of larval anchovy and sardine (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1508479). We simulated larval dispersal patterns using a simplified model within the Java-based ICHTHYOP particle tracking tool. This model compared outputs from the 3km grid resolution CROCO model and the 8km-resolution Global Ocean Reanalyses (GLORYS). Virtual particles were released from the surface of 14 inshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), from iSimangaliso MPA (on the east coast) including the Agulhas Bank (on the south) to Childs Bank MPA (on the west coast). Releases occurred on October 1st for five consecutive years, starting in 2010. These particles drifted for 30 days, with their positions recorded every 30 minutes. Particles that exited the model's boundaries or became stranded on beaches were excluded from...

DOI: 10.15493/DEA.MIMS.15712023
Simulated advection patterns of Engraulis encrasicolus and Sardinops sagax larvae across South Africa's inshore Marine Protected Areas

Larval anchovy and sardine dispersal patterns in South Africa's exclusive economic zone (2010 - 2014) by Rasehlomi et al. (2025), published in Frontiers in Marine Science, investigates the dispersal of larval anchovy and sardine (https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2024.1508479). We simulated larval dispersal patterns using a simplified model within the Java-based ICHTHYOP particle tracking tool. This model compared outputs from the 3km grid resolution CROCO model and the 8km-resolution Global Ocean Reanalyses (GLORYS). Virtual particles were released from the surface of 14 inshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), from iSimangaliso MPA (on the east coast) including the Agulhas Bank (on the south) to Childs Bank MPA (on the west coast). Releases occurred on October 1st for five consecutive years, starting in 2010. These particles drifted for 30 days, with their positions recorded every 30 minutes. Particles that exited the model's boundaries or became stranded on beaches were excluded from...

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