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As sea level rose, reefs developed on the platform margin and were gradually displaced to more shoreward bedrock highs.
The boundary then extends shoreward towards the mean high-water line.
Then as fall approaches they again come shoreward as they head toward their spawning stream and the cycle repeats.
Its younger set, coming shoreward for the first time to spawn, are caught as whitebait.
In response to rising sea level, the barrier island migrated shoreward over lagoonal muds.

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