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El Niño may impact West Coast fishing industry
03/09/10
The ongoing 2010 El Niño could affect the West Coast fishing industry, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego.
Researchers with the California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations (CalCOFI) at Scripps and NOAA’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center are observing a stronger than normal northward movement of warm water up the Southern California coast, a high sea-level event in January and low amounts of plankton and pelagic fish. Sea surface temperatures along the entire West Coast are 0.5 to 1 degree Celsius warmer than normal.
“Based on our previous experience of El Niño in California, it is likely to reduce ocean production below..................
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