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Every few years, winds stop blowing for months at a time causing the ocean currents to slow down, and causing the nutrient-rich deep ocean cold water that usually wells up to slow down. As a result, fishermen off the coast of South America catch fewer fish during this phenomenon. What is this phenomenon called?

A. El Gulf Stream



B. La Ms. Shamsi



C. El Nina



D. El Nino

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D. El Nino

a warming of the ocean surface or above average sea surface temperature’s in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. Basically when warmer than average water temp develop on the pacific.
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Answer:

D. El Nino

Step-by-step explanation:

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