0 the area of the bottom of the sea near the coast of a continent, where the sea is not very deep -- 大陸架
They envisioned a periodic alongshore current flowing over undulations in the continental shelf.
Stocks of many large fishes have plummeted due to overfishing and destruction of critical habitat on the continental shelf by mechanized harvesting.
Ctenophores actually consume much of the copepod production on the continental shelf.
For example, the satellite observations of internal wave packets were correlated with semidiurnal and diurnal tides a t the edge of the continental shelf.
The flow of energy in marine ecosystems, with special reference to the continental shelf.
Soft-sediment benthic biodiversity on the continental shelf in relation to environmental variability.
Whilst the group accepts that these two species are caught on the continental shelf, it is imperative that they are properly regulated.
Added to which is the lack of a continental shelf, meaning that fishing essentially takes place on what are referred to as ‘submarine hills’.
