EDIT: Federal Fisheries Regulators Halt West Coast Sardine Season

[KittyWampus]

34. Well, here's an article from the LATimes that has no mention of "woo-Fukushima":

And here's the thing that climate change deniers ignore which applies here-

The capacity for Nature to bounce back after a dry spell/sardine crash is severely undermined by human activity.

Like a healthy person can survive and bounce back after pneumonia but a heavy smoker might succumb to it because their lungs and heart in such bad condition.


http://articles.latimes.com/2014/jan/05/local/la-me-sardine-crash-20140106


The reason for the drop is unclear. Sardine populations are famously volatile, but the decline is the steepest since the collapse of the sardine fishery in the mid-20th century. And their numbers are projected to keep sliding.

One factor is a naturally occurring climate cycle known as the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, which in recent years has brought cold, nutrient-rich water to the West Coast. While those conditions have brought a boom in some species, such as market squid, they have repelled sardines.
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Since the 1940s scientists have debated how much of the collapse was caused by ocean conditions and how much by overfishing. Now, researchers are posing the same question.

"It's a terribly difficult scientific problem," said Russ Vetter, director of the Fisheries Resources Division at NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center.

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