Yes, it Does: A Reply to the Comment by Banse

The occurrence of excess major nutrients in offshore waters of the Gulf of Alaska, equatorial Pacific, and Southern Ocean raises the obvious question: what prevents the phytoplankton from blooming and depleting the nutrients, as is the normal situation in nearshore environment? Based on Fe abundance inshore and scarcity offshore (Martin et al. 1989), we think the answer involves iron deficiency. Banse's (1990) comment ignores most of the work we painstakingly performed in the Gulf of Alaska.