25'S at the Tanzanian border (Figure 1). The continental shelf is narrow with fringing coral
reefs that extend between 0.5 and 2 km offshore. Coastal waters off Kenya are warm tropical
and are influenced by the monsoon seasons–warmer during the NE monsoon and cooler
during the SE monsoon. The ocean current regime along the Kenyan coast is influenced by
the East Africa Coastal Current and the seasonally reversing Somali Current. Most of marine …