There are 24 canneries along Monterey s Ocean View Avenue, later renamed Cannery Row. Sardine fishery falls to 100,000 metric tons.
Fishing industry imposes tax on catch to support research on causes of population failure.
Ocean off California warms by 2 degrees C, causing anomalies in precipitation, plankton abundance, and fisheries. Oceanographers, fisheries personnel, meteorologists conclude that understanding and forecasting of fluctuations in coastal fisheries are best achieved by studying the entire ocean and ocean-atmosphere relationships. Subsequent volumes summarize the distribution of zooplankton biomass, seasonal sea-level pressure patterns, and drift bottle results. 1964 Sardine spawning biomass at 30,000 metric tons is one percent of the spawning biomass in 1938. State legislature enacts fishery moratorium.