Do I need to put canonical on pages with pagination?

Question

Search Engine Optimization

I have read a lot of articles on this topic, but there is no clear consensus.
Example:
/catalog/ - first 50 catalog positions
/catalog/page/2 - catalog positions 51 to 100
/catalog/page/3 - catalog positions 101 to 150
Is it necessary to set a canonical link for all pages? (canonical = /catalog/)
The pages are different, but canonical, as I understand it, is set to the same...

Answer 1

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Google advises any of three options:
do nothing;
set rel="canonical" from all pagination pages, including the first one, to the page with all products — pageall;
use the next, prev attributes to show the relationship between pagination pages (it was relevant until March 2019).
SEO specialists also practice other methods:
they block crawling using placement or prohibit indexing in the robots.txt file (while robots is not a directive).
on all pagination pages point rel="canonical" to the first (main) page.
My opinion is canonical for 1 page