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Oyashio
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Oyashio [ō′yā·shē·ō]
(oceanography)
A cold current flowing from the Bering Sea southwest along the coast of Kamchatka, past the Kuril Islands, continuing close to the northeast coast of Japan, and reaching nearly 35°N.


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In Funka Bay, the Oyashio Current flows from spring to summer, and the Tsugaru Warm Current flows from autumn to winter (Ohtani & Akiba 1970, Ohtani 1971, 1981).
[FIGURE 2 OMITTED] Inada and Murakami (1993) suggested that the pollock catch and distribution in the Tohoku area are strongly affected by the coastal branch of the Oyashio Current but little information is available on the relationship between oceanographic conditions and juvenile distribution and abundance in this area.
The localities between the eastern Tsugaru Strait and Todohokke in the Pacific Ocean where the sea urchin was not found are affected by low water temperature, caused by the Oyashio Current (Ohtani 1987.
 
 
 
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