El Niño is here, and it’s already scrambling fisheries throughout the Pacific ^22.2%

Grist - By Joseph Winters - 7/8/2026, 8:45 AM

Negativity Bias 24.1% - Post Hoc (False Cause) 22.5% - Hasty Generalization 13%

We’re not even one month into “super” El Niño, the natural Pacific weather pattern characterized by warmer than average sea surface temperatures, and fisheries around the world are already getting scrambled. In Peru, government officials have effectively canceled the fishing season for anchovies, one of the country’s most important... more