This might be another look at what the blob might be doing out in the Pacific:

https://q13fox.com/2020/01/15/a-blob-of-...scientists-say/

Not mentioned but has there been any research on what effects the Fukushima radiation release may have had on the microscopic organisms in the central Pacific? The currents would have taken the radiation in the direction where the blob formed and it did happen after the release. Could this possibly be a cause of the poor return rates recently?