| fisheries productivity in the northeastern pacific ocean over the past 2,200 years. | historical catch records suggest that climatic variability has had basin-wide effects on the northern pacific and its fish populations, such as salmon, sardines and anchovies. however, these records are too short to define the nature and frequency of patterns. we reconstructed approximately 2,200-year records of sockeye salmon abundance from sediment cores obtained from salmon nursery lakes on kodiak island, alaska. large shifts in abundance, which far exceed the decadal-scale variability record ... | 2002 | 11961553 |