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Population synchrony led to greater variability in Chinook salmon ocean abundance. These fluctuations are on a scale relevant to predators and ocean fisheries and decrease the Chinook salmon available to these resource users.
🐟Simulation model reveals that demographic synchrony leads to greater Chinook #salmon variability during ocean life-stage. Plus, synchrony leads to ⬇️salmon availability for predators & #fisheries@genoa_sully@jamealfsamhouri 👇https://t.co/lYmrB6chz3
@genoa_sully just pub'd a terrific paper considering the causes and consequences of increasingly synchronous ocean #salmon distributions for people and fish-eating killer whales. the take-home? we need mgmt + conservation actions that reduce spatial synchrony @NOAAFish_NWFSC