Impacts of the Blob: West Coast Fishermen Now Live with Heightened Uncertainty
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SeafoodNews] by Peggy Parker - September 17, 2018
This is the third in a four-part series summarizing Warming Seas Falling Fortunes, a new report by the Center for American Progress released last week.
While West Coast fishermen are used to El Nino, a warming of Pacific equatorial surface temperatures that brings drier conditions to the Pacific Northwest and wetter winters to California, they were not prepared for “the blob” when it hit in 2014.
In the fall of 2013, NOAA detected a large mass of unusually warm ...
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