Pacific Warm Water "Blob" Had Larger Impact on West Coast Fisheries Than El Nino
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Michael Milstein - July 7, 2016
Milstein is a public affairs officer at NOAA Fisheries.
El Niño exerted powerful effects around the globe in the last year, eroding California beaches; driving drought in northern South America, Africa and Asia; and bringing record rain to the U.S. Pacific Northwest and southern South America. In the Pacific Ocean off the West Coast, however, the California Current Ecosystem was already unsettled by an unusual pattern of warming popularly known as “The Blob.”
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