The unusually warm waters, which lingered for about a year and a half, have been linked to mass die - offs of birds,
collapsed codfish populations in the Gulf of Alaska and altered weather patterns that brought drought to California.
Not exact matches
A hundred miles to the east, on Georges Bank, the
codfish stock had recently
collapsed, as had the much larger one on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland; regulators had been forced to close both of those rich and historic fisheries.