The cold Benguela current is a mineral-rich upwelling current, which flows away to the north along the western coastline, after having come up from the cold depths of the Atlantic Ocean.
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SEAFO has strong link with the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Programme ( BCLME ) and the Benguela Current Commission ( BCC ) and shares information on the fisheries and the environment.
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SEAFO has strong link with the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem Programme ( BCLME ) and the Benguela Current Commission ( BCC ) and shares information on the fisheries and the environment.
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Thus the Benguela and Agulhas currents do not strictly " meet " anywhere, although eddies from the Agulhas current do from time to time round the Cape to join the Benguela Current.
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Its generic placement is disputed; some authors treat it as the Atlantic by way of the westernmost fringes of Europe to winter off southwest Africa in the cold waters of the Benguela Current.
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The Benguela Current is the eastern boundary of the California Current System ( CCS ) is an eastern boundary current of the North Pacific that is also characterized by a north and south split.
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These two currents have a major effect on the country's climate, the ready evaporation of the eastern seas providing generous rainfall while the Benguela current retains its moisture to cause desert conditions in the west.
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This " Agulhas Ring " enters the flow of the Benguela Current or is advected northwestward across the South Atlantic where it joins the South Equatorial Current, where they dissipate into the larger background currents.
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In the Mediterranean Sea, it is specifically found in the northern and southern Tyrrhenian Sea, Ligurian Sea, and off Gorgona Island . " S . leucoptera " has also been recorded from the Benguela Current off Namibia.
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Similarly, Cape Point is not the fixed " meeting point " of the cold Benguela Current, running northwards along the west coast of Africa, and the warm Agulhas Current, running south from the equator along the east coast of Africa.
