“…The North Indian Ocean is devoid of strong quasi-stationary fronts save for river plume fronts associated with the Ganges-Brahmaputra and Irrawaddy freshwater outflows/discharges (Belkin and Cornillon, 2007;Belkin, Cornillon, and Sherman, 2009). Nonetheless, numerous papers by Indian, Pakistani, and Indonesian researchers are dedicated to fronts and their effects on fisheries, particularly regarding Potential Fishing Zones (PFZ; Abdullah et al, 2017;Swetha et al, 2017;Sarma et al, 2018;Chakraborty et al, 2019;Hidayat et al, 2019;Jishad et al, 2019;Francis et al, 2020;Suhadha et al, 2020;Zainuddin et al, 2020), with tuna being the main target (Abdullah et al, 2017;Hidayat et al, 2019;Zainuddin et al, 2020).…”