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Which outcome reduces fisheries' productivity when coastal upwelling weakens?

A)Nutrient cycling is significantly reduced.
B)Deepwater vent ecosystems will flourish.
C)Coastal erosion rates will decrease.
D)Surface salinity levels will decrease.

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Reduced upwelling weakens the transfer of nutrients such as nitrates and phosphates from deep cold waters to the surface layer via nutrient cycling, because the driving density gradient decreases; therefore reducing phytoplankton and, consequentially, fish populations, rather than increasing salinity changes.

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