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Published online 10 January 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030106-13
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Sardines and anchovies cycle with climate
Pacific fish stocks may swing every 25 years.
Man's greedy take from the sea may not have caused the demise in the 1950s of Cannery Row - California's sardine-canning business and subject of John Steinbeck's 1945 novel. A natural, five-decade Pacific Ocean cycle may have been to blame.
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