Variability in timing and magnitude of spring bloom in the Oyashio region, the western subarctic Pacific off Hokkaido, Japan

• Published in: Fisheries Oceanography
• Main Authors: KASAI, HIROMI, SAITO, HIROAKI, YOSHIMORI, AKIRA, TAGUCHI, SATORU
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1997
• Subjects: Oyashio; Pacific; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2419.1997.00034.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1046%2Fj.1365-2419.1997.00034.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1046/j.1365-2419.1997.00034.x

The spring bloom of phytoplankton is a well‐established, regular, seasonal event in the western subarctic Pacific and is considered one of the most important conditions of massive production of pelagic fishes. A series of 12 cruises was conducted from 1990 to 1992 to examine the timing and magnitude...