in the pacific bluefin fishery the fishing area has tended to shift northward year by year they concluded that water temperature in recent years seemed to be higher than normal but that these changes were not necessarily related to global warming because other fluctuations over periods lasting from ten years to several decades were dominating yamada et al more recently seo reported that the fast growth of hokkaido chum salmon at the age of one year which was related to global warming would positively affect the survival rate and in turn would affect the population densitydependent growth and maturing at age two to four due to the limited carrying capacity of the bering sea these are statistical downscaling dynamic downscaling on regional scales and dynamic global models