It is interesting to note the surface water temps when plotted across the equatorial Pacific (Australia to Ecuador-Peru) increase when the associated currents appear to reverse as the surface water temps increase, slam back into the South America and spread out both north and south along the landmass of the continents that prevents the currents from continuing in a east to west fashion.
This should have read "west to east" instead of what was posted in order to make any sense.
Also, on Blanton's board a poster makes reference to an Oregon State University study of the delayed upwelling in 2005 causing ocean temps to increase due to changes in coastal ocean currents. This coincides with my remarks on equatorial current changes to reflect a reversal in surface water temps pushing from Australia moving eastward and along the coast of South America and pushing both north and south along the landmass and warming the waters as it moved in those directions. Deep water upwelling off the coast of California finally reversed this warming trend. If my recollection is right, this is when the nutrient rich bio mass off the coast was reported as well.
Since then, there was another obscure report of phytoplankton near the bottom of the food chain that had a massive collapse/die off for some reason. From the report, it mentioned that zooplankton was dependent on the phytoplankton that died off and would cause problems somewhere else immediately along the food chain (if someone is more familiar with this, please jump in and correct me). At the time it seemed like a wait see scenario as the other shoe dropped. The decline of salmon along Pacific coast might just be part of the equation being played out on larger scale that we are focusing on as a group. The explanation of the 2007 salmon fishing closures along the coast and the newer marine sanctuary closures were perhaps just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak.
At any rate, it has definitely keyed my curiosity.
I have included the July 2005 article from SFGate.com along with a similar article written the winter of the same year at following URLs
http://www...05/07/12/MNG8SDMMR01.DTL
http://www...ming-pacific-515074.html
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