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The light regime of the water column has a strong structuring effect on aquatic food webs and it has been previously hypothesized that coastal water darkening has increased the success of tactile predators relative to visual predators such as fish. Due to a general lack of time-series of optical parameters, we applied a proxy for light attenuation that depends on salinity and dissolved oxygen at a time of the year when chlorophyll concentrations were low. We present evidence that coastal waters of Norway have darkened as a result of freshening over the period 1935 to 2007. Our results suggest that locations where coastal water penetrates into deep basins have been prone to water column darkening, particularly if dissolved oxygen has also declined. We have estimated that salinity and oxygen variation on the ranges 33 to 35 PSU and 1 to 6 ml O 2 l -1 are associated with up to 8 orders of magnitude difference in photon flux at 200 m depth in a water column devoid of pigments. Our results suggest such darkening needs to be considered in analyses of mesopelagic regime shifts involving mass occurrence of the jellyfish Periphylla periphylla.

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Advective rates of nutrients, phytoplankton and zooplankton were estimated for the Masfjord, western Norway, in June and October 1985. The advective contribution to the phytoplankton biomass formation was dearly less than the local growth. Advection of nutrients, even below the photic zone, may have large implications for the new production of the fjord. The highest renewal rate (13.6 % d l ) due to advection was obtained for the mesozooplankton in June. While 20 % of this renewal was due to water advection alone, 80 % was due to the combined effect of the current profile and the vertical distribution of the mesozooplankton. Thus transport of mesozooplankton may exceed local growth significantly. The deep basin (494 m) of the fjord serves as a refuge for resident macrozooplankton and rnicronekton populations predating on mesozooplankton. Analysis suggests that such predators may be more sensitive to a change in the advective rate than to a similar change in the prey growth rate. Advection may be an important factor underlying the carrying capacity of mesozooplankton predators in fjords.