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Sardines and anchovies cycle with climate

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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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  1. Chavez, F. P., Ryan, J., Lluch-Cota, S.E. & Niquen, M. From anchovies to sardines and back: multidecadal change in the Pacific Ocean. Science, 299, 217 - 221, (2003).

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Southwest Fisheries Science Center La Jolla, California

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Powell, K. Sardines and anchovies cycle with climate. Nature (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/news030106-13

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