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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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The striped marlin (Kajikia audax) is a species of billfish that is overfished in the North Pacific. A new study co-led by WHOI finds that marine predators, like the striped marlin, aggregate in anticyclonic, clockwise-rotating ocean eddies to feed.

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Image credit: Pat Ford (Pat Ford Photography)

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