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“North Pacific ‘blob’ stirs up fisheries management”

21 Aug 2015
21 Aug 2015

A very unusual phenomena is causing some confusion or at least uncertainty. According to this Nature article there is good reason behind some recent ecosystem modelling in better understanding and preparing for the unknown.

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