'Warm blob' of water in Pacific Ocean could hurt salmon

[agentaqua]

Blob is gone, but not forgotten for scientists studying decline in B.C. fish stocks

Larry Pynn
Published on: November 13, 2017
http://vancouversun.com/news/local-...cientists-studying-decline-in-b-c-fish-stocks

 

[agentaqua]

Ghost of ‘the Blob’ haunts Pacific salmon
Impacts from warm ocean waters still playing out in many ways
Columbia Basin Bulletin
Published on January 16, 2018
http://www.chinookobserver.com/co/free/20180116/ghost-of-the-blob-haunts-pacific-salmon

 

[big rock]

Come on La Niña you beautiful women

Mount Washington ski resort received 105 cm in 24 hrs with much more to come this week. Windy Ty show awesome ocean mixing in the North Pacific let's hope this tread continues through out the winter.
If you hear folks complaining about the weather politely remind them this is what winters are suppose to be on the BC coast.
Here is to snow packed mountains and cold ocean temps to help the salmon and steelhead population.

Cheers

 

[wildmanyeah]

Add Cod to that list

The cod decline is blamed on younger fish not surviving warm ocean temperatures that began in 2014.

"It was different than other years in that it went really deep, and it also lasted throughout the winter. What can happen is the food source can deplete rapidly when the entire ecosystem is ramped up in those warm temperatures," said Steve Barbeaux, a scientist with the Alaska Fisheries Science Center in Seattle.

The warm water also hurt cod egg survival and wiped out several year classes of juvenile fish.


Kodiak officials prepare for ‘disaster’: An 80 percent decline in Gulf cod catches in 2018

https://www.adn.com/business-econom...-percent-decline-in-gulf-cod-catches-in-2018/