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Nemuro Strait

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Nemuro Strait 

a strait that lies between Kunashir and Hokkaido islands. It is the northern extension of Izmena Strait. In the extreme south, Nemuro Strait connects the Okhotsk Sea with the Pacific Ocean. It is 74 km long and measures 43 km wide in the north and 24 km wide in the south. The strait reaches depths of 2,500 m in the north and 17–20 m in the south. The shores are generally steep and slightly jagged. Nemuro Strait freezes over in the winter.



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Within Japan, a general regional structuring of populations was observed, with populations from the Pacific coast of Honshu Island forming a distinct group (92% of dendrograms evaluated), as did populations from the Nemuro Strait (89% of dendrograms) and the eastern Pacific coast of Hokkaido Island (50% of dendrograms).
Meanwhile, the Oyashio Current, with low water temperature and high nutrient levels, containing meltwater from drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk, flows into the Pacific Ocean through the Nemuro Strait, then flows southwestward along the eastern coast of Hokkaido (Nagata et al.
 
 
 
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