Science Finds ‘Butterfly Effect’ on Fisheries

Pacific sardines (photo by user Tewy at Wikimedia Commons).Researchers with Scripps Institution of Oceanography believe they may have found the answer to the mystifying collapse of Pacific sardine fisheries in the middle of the last century: a shift in wind patterns that drastically reduced the upwelling of plankton, the fish’s primary food source. The discovery has implications for future climate change as well.

Image courtesy of Tewy via Wikimedia Commons.

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