“…Relationships between Pacific salmon catch values as a stock abundance index, the Northern Hemisphere Land and Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly Index (N.HEMI+dSST), and salmon body weight in commercial catches of the North Pacific countries (Table 1) were assessed using stepwise multiple regression analysis. The temperature anomaly index values are calculated in correspondence with the marine phase duration of Pacific salmon species: two-year averaging is used for pink and coho salmon, four-year averaging is used for chum, sockeye, and Chinook (Bugaev 2017). 7.83 (5.52-9.26) 6.17 (3.59-10.39) 6.82 (5.41-9.12) Pacific salmon catches by the NPAFC member countries reached historic high levels at the end of the first decade of the current century (see https://npafc.org/statistics/).…”