El Niño and La Niña

[WB Staff]

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NOAA Fisheries West Coast
If El Niño and La Niña can affect #climate patterns thousands of miles away from the central/eastern equatorial Pacific… can it also affect marine life within that distance too? Specifically, might it affect one of the poster fish of the North Pacific, the #salmon?
Short answer: it does! And luckily for you, the long answer involves this Q&A with El Niño-Southern Oscillation (“ENSO” for short) expert, Dr. Nate Mantua of NOAA Fisheries, on all things ENSO + salmon. https://www.climate.gov/news-features/b ... and-salmon