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Report: Strong upwelling and abundant forage in 2025, but offshore marine heatwave and harmful algal blooms raise concern
Summary
The Fishery Management Council, Pacific heard a 2025 Ecosystem Status Report finding strong, early upwelling and abundant forage that supported seabirds and some fisheries, alongside record offshore marine heatwaves, widespread domoic acid events and lingering risks from low snowpack and port processor closures.
The Fishery Management Council, Pacific was briefed on the 2025 Ecosystem Status Report, which found that strong, early upwelling produced productive coastal conditions and abundant forage across much of the West Coast even as the region experienced record offshore marine heat and major harmful algal blooms.
The report’s presenters said 2025 produced “very diverse and abundant forage” — including anchovy, young-of-year rockfish, juvenile Chinook and krill — that helped seabird reproductive success and buoyed some predator diets. “We saw an increase in total fishery landings in 2025, up 26% from 2024,” Amanda Phillips of…
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