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WORDS TO UNDERSTAND

circadian rhythm: the “body clock”; a 24-hour rhythm that tells organisms when to eat and when to sleep estuaries: parts of a river where the current meets the sea high tide: when water levels are highest; larger fish are able to move into shallower pools low tide: water levels are lowest; smaller fish are more abundant in shallow pools neap tide: a tide in which there is the least difference between high and low tides, occurring during the first and third quarters of the moon phases of the moon: an optical illusion that makes it look like the shape of the moon changes due to fluctuations in the sun’s illumination of the moon’s surface slack tide: a two- to three-hour period after each high and low tide when the ocean and the fish are less active

Deep Sea Fishing

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