Patterns of Change in Climate and Pacific Salmon Production

• Main Author: Nathan J. Mantua
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Bering Sea; Pacific; Norton Sound; Pink salmon; Alaska
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.352.4086; http://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2009_mantua001.pdf

Abstract.-For much of the 20th century a clear north-south inverse production pattern for Pacific salmon had a time dynamic that closely followed that of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), which is the dominant pattern of North Pacific sea surface temperature variability. Total Alaska salmon pro...