Animal Behavior, Methane Poisoning, Dead or Alive and on the move (+ interactive map)

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When Planet X entered the inner Solar System in late 2002 - early 2003, it was not just the Earth that reacted, as it did with an increase in earthquakes, volcanism and extreme weather, the animal life on Earth also started showing signs of the approaching monster.

The most noticeable symptoms were:

  • Crazy Animal Behaviour:  Reports of bizarre behaviour including animal attacks from normally passive creatures and spiders spinning webs over whole fields.
  • Confused Animals:  Whales and dolphins stranding themselves on beaches in droves or getting lost upstream in coastal rivers.
  • Large fish and bird kills:  Flocks of birds falling dead from the sky and shoals of fish dying and floating to the surface of lakes, rivers and washing up along coastlines.

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Crazy Animal Behaviour

Reports of crazy animal behaviour have included sheep that charged a farmer’s wife off a cliff, deer attacking a car and rabbits biting pedestrians.  Spiders have spun webs over whole fields and caterpillar larvae have covered whole trees in silk.

As usual, the Zetas explain the true causes:

http://www.zetatalk.com/transfor/t154.htm (Jan 11th 2003)

Animal behavior also has been noted as almost crazed, where animals normally passive and seeking to avoid confrontation will attack with provocation, or fly in the wrong direction during migration. This is due to signals the animals or insects get from the core of the Earth, signals not known to man, but nonetheless there.  [……]  Spiders weaving webs to an extreme so that acres are covered under webs, get noted, but the base behavior is normal for a spider.  EOZT

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Confused Animals

Other erratic behaviour among animals included a seeming loss of direction with whales and dolphins swimming inland and stranding themselves on beaches.

Unreliable Compasses  (March 28th, 2009)

The compass is unreliable for the past few years, and lately has gotten very extreme in its variance. Many animals and insects have a biological compass, recording during migrations where that compass laid, and when taking a return trip relying on the recording to guide them back. If the Earth's N Pole swings away from the press of Planet X, which is increasingly pointing its N Pole at the Earth, then these animals are not given correct clues and aim for land or up a river. Sad to say, this will only get worse as the last weeks and the pole shift loom on the horizon.   EOZT

Are due to the Magnetic Clash   (July 1st, 2006)

The compass anomaly, swinging to the East, is indicative of the Earth adjusting to the approach of Planet X and the clash of their magnetic fields. The change is indicative of a clash in magnetic fields as Planet X comes ever closer to the Earth, their fields touching. It is the combined field that Earth must adjust to, and continue to adjust to, not the exact position of the N Pole of Planet X within these fields, and the Sun's magnetic field enters into the equation too. This dramatic change, noted by a conscientious tracker, checking dual compasses daily for years, indicates that the Earth is trying to align side-by-side with Planet X, bringing its magnetic N Pole to point toward the Sun, as Planet X is currently doing in the main. These adjustments are temporary, and change about, as magnets can make dramatic and swift changes in their alignment with each other. Put a number of small magnets on a glass, with iron ore dust, and move a large magnet about under them, and watch the jerking about they do. Are we saying the Earth's magnetic field is going to get more erratic in the future, dramatically so? There is no question that this will be one of the signs that will come, yet another not covered by the Global Warming excuse.   EOZT

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Large fish and bird kills

Hundreds, if not thousands, of these events have taken place with the frequency increasing year on year.  Poignant examples include the 20 tonnes of dead herring which washed ashore in Norway and 1200 pelicans found on a beach in Peru.

Earth Farts  (January 9th, 2007)

We have explained, in great detail, that the stretch zone does not register great quakes when rock layers pull apart and sink, as this is a silent Earth change. Nancy has carefully documented breaking water and gas mains, derailing trains, dislocating bridge abutments, mining accidents, and outbreaks of factory explosions, showing that these have occurred in rashes on occasion, when the rock layers pulled apart. [……]  In September-October of 2005, a smell of rotten eggs was sensed from LA to Thunder Bay on Lake Superior to the New England states and throughout the South-Eastern US. We explained at that time that this was due to rock layers being pulled apart, releasing gas from moldering vegetation trapped during prior pole shifts, when rock layers were jerked about, trapping vegetation. We explained in March of 2002 that black water off the coast of Florida was caused by this phenomena. Do these fumes cause people to sicken, and birds to die? Mining operations of old had what they called the canary in a birdcage, to warn the miners of methane gas leaks. Birds are very sensitive to these fumes, and die, and this is indeed what happened in Austin, TX. Were it not for the explosions associated with gas leaks, it would be common knowledge that gas leaks sicken, as the body was not structured to breathe such air for long.   EOZT

 

Zetatalk Explanation  (January 8th, 2011)

Dead fish and birds falling from the sky are being reported worldwide, suddenly. This is not a local affair, obviously. Dead birds have been reported in Sweden and N America, and dead fish in N America, Brazil, and New Zealand. Methane is known to cause bird dead, and as methane rises when released during Earth shifting, will float upward through the flocks of birds above. But can this be the cause of dead fish? If birds are more sensitive than humans to methane release, fish are likewise sensitive to changes in the water, as anyone with an aquarium will attest. Those schools of fish caught in rising methane bubbles during sifting of rock layers beneath them will inevitably be affected. Fish cannot, for instance, hold their breath until the emergency passes! Nor do birds have such a mechanism.   EOZT

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Thousands of dead fish found ‘mysteriously’ floating in a lake in London, England

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An investigation is underway after thousands of dead fish were found floating in an east London park lake.

The grim discovery was made by volunteers in Harrow Lodge Park, Havering, over the weekend.

Havering Council has launched an environmental health investigation to find out what caused the mass death.      

Councillor Melvin Wallace said: “We’re still trying to determine the exact cause of the incident.

“We believe it’s either due to an extensive amount of un-oxygenated water that entered the lake due to the heavy rainfall over the weekend, or a possible pollutant.

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“The Environment Agency has tested the water and we’re currently waiting for the results.”

Council staff have since removed the fish from the lake.

It is not the first time animals have died in the lake. Earlier this year several birds contaminated with avian botulism were found dead in the park while 20 ducks were killed by visitors feeding them mouldy bread.

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Large amounts of dead and ‘sick’ fish being found in the Baltic sea off coast of Sweden, Finland and Germany

El «inexplicable» problema de los peces muertos y enfermos del mar Báltico

There is an “inexplicable” problem in the Baltic Sea, has warned Oceana . Its waters are registering high mortality of fish. The international marine conservation organization that has made ​​three expeditions in the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat between 2011 and 2013 using remote underwater vehicles and divers, has requested that new marine protected areas are designated in the area and measures are carried out suitable management.

“Compared with expeditions developed in other districts of the globe, we have found a particularly high amount of dead fish or behaving abnormally, having poor conditions or look sick. We do not know the reason and also difficult to identify the specific causes, as many factors may be responsible “, explains the NGO. “Natural causes of death can not be ruled out as an infection or a particular disease Baltic due to its hydrography. It could also result emprobecimiento environmental status of the Baltic Sea, or simply because the ratio of decomposition in the water is lower because the marine life that inhabits them is lower than in other areas “continue. Therefore, “we think it investigated” Zanjan.

In 2013, the Swedish Government commissioned the evaluation of their coastal waters to its marine agency to take samples and determine the causes of the appearance of dead fish along its coastline. There were no conclusive results, and were cited as possible causes pollution and lack of complementary food. Other research conducted by Denmark also pointed to oxygen depletion.

In Germany have seen many dead fish on its shores “but have not sought answers” and also in Finland, pointing from Oceana.

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Large amounts of fish found dead in a creek in Juan Diaz, Panama

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Masses of fish wash up dead along 5km of beach in Jambeli, Ecuador

Peces muertos hallados en 5 kilómetros de playa

Hundreds of dead fish, plus the blue-footed boobies ATDE last Monday was found in about five kilometers of beach on the island Jambelí. Ministry of Environment staff came to this site and not statements were issued regarding the causes of this fact.

The variety of fish is called chuhueco found and used for the production of fishmeal. “We believe that industrial fishing boat took a shoal of fish and threw the sea,” said Jorge Luis Vaca, president of the Vestry of Jambelí.

Mariana Zambrano, owner of a tourist cabins, said tourists were surprised to observe that amount of fish on the beach. “I got up and watched the dead fish are already three times this year,” he said.

Dwellers fish collected in bags to bury them in a garbage dump. The stench was intense even in areas where there are restaurants and rest areas for tourists.

“We reported this incident to the authorities for a study to be done, but technicians say it is impossible to collect samples because species already have more than 48 hours and are decaying,” said Cruz Amalfi, naval officer.

The ECU-911 system Machala reported that it would be “waste fishing” of bolicheros boats (industrial fishing) within 5 nautical miles solely for artisanal fisheries.

Artisanal fishermen reported seeing these fish from the afternoon of Monday in the coastal belts of Jambelí and Low High. In addition boobies were also found dead on that beach.

Similar cases occurred in 2012, 2013 and this year is the third. Residents believe that variations in temperature and the onset of aguajes would impact these events to occur.

Delegates MAE, the area of ​​Environment of the Prefecture of El Oro, Undersecretariat of Fisheries and the Port Bolivar took samples of water and dead fish.

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50 dead sharks found washed ashore on a beach in N.Carolina, America

Michael Boswell, a local resident, was walking on the beach when he spotted "approximately 50 dead sharks" on the sand near Southeast 64th Street in Oak Island. (Source: Michael Boswell)
Michael Boswell, a local resident, was walking on the beach when he spotted “approximately 50 dead sharks” on the sand near Southeast 64th Street in Oak Island. (Source: Michael Boswell)

The NC Division of Marine Fisheries is investigating after dozens of dead sharks were found washed ashore on a popular beach strand in Brunswick County on Sunday morning.

Michael Boswell, a local resident, said he was walking on the beach when he spotted about 50 dead sharks on the sand near Southeast 64th Street in Oak Island.

The unidentified sharks range in size from approximately 1′-5′.

Boswell said he reported the discovery to police in Oak Island. Since the initial report, the sharks have been picked up and removed from the beach strand.

However, since the sharks were found below the tide line, this issue is under the jurisdiction of the NC Division of Marine Fisheries.

The exact cause of death for the sharks is still undetermined. According to Patricia Smith, a public information officer with that agency, crews are on their way to Oak Island to investigate the matter.

The unidentified sharks range in size from approximately 1'-5'. (Source: Michael Boswell)

The unidentified sharks range in size from approximately 1′-5′. (Source: Michael Boswell)
Oak Island Mayor Betty Wallace said it is illegal to dump any species of dead fish on the public beach strand. The only permitted forms of fishing on the beach are fishing for consumption or catch and release.

Even though this matter falls under the jurisdiction of the NC Division of Marine Fisheries, Wallace said she plans to ask town staff to look into the issue from their end.

“I plan to contact our town manager to review the situation,” said Wallace. “We should ask the public works department to keep a watch on this to make sure it doesn’t become a public health issue. We will be contacting the proper authorities to see what can or should be done.”

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Large number of dead birds found on Pismo Beach in California, America

If you make a trip to Pismo Beach you may find more than just sand and seaweed on your walk.

Locals and tourists have been noticing a lot of dead sea birds lining the coast, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife warn they could be a hazard to your pets and children.

“I can take the dogs out to a spot were there are not as many dogs out or people. Or dead birds,” said beachgoer Laura Best.

Best and her daughter, Annabelle, went to Pismo Beach with their dogs on Thursday for a relaxing afternoon. Instead, they were surrounded by dead birds.

“I leave my dogs in the stroller until we get to a spot were I don’t see any vultures or dead birds,” said Best. “I just don’t want them eating them and carrying them around, and with bringing my little girl here, I am trying to keep them safe.”

The Carson family found the smell and sight of rotting birds to take away from their beach day experience.

“I mean there is hardly any trash so why should there be carcasses?” asked Anthony Carson. “They are not the cleanest creatures out there and just a dead rotting carcass floating around is unpleasant and the health risk is out there.”

To find out why all the dead birds are on the beach, KSBY went to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Turns out, it was news to them.

“We will collect some of the species and do a field necropsy and see if there is anything obvious,” said Warden Ryan Hanson. “If it’s blunt force trauma that is killing these birds then we might lean towards a boat hitting them or if they are intact then we will do some more research and figure out what is going on.”

While they figure out what exactly is killing all the birds they advise beachgoers to stay away.

“It’s a little less enjoyable because I have to constantly keep my eye on whatever she is picking up,” said Best. “I mean, she is not just picking up seaweed and crabs anymore, it might be a dead body part, and that’s kinda gross.”

At this point it is only speculation, but Hanson says it can be anything from fish bait attracting the birds to shore, the drought, or even ships hitting a flock of birds.

KSBY will continue to follow up with the Department of Fish and Wildlife and report on its investigation.

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Mass die off of fish found in a river in China

Floating on the water a lot of dead fish

New public Ma call our hotline (18837996211) reflected. Subsequently, reporters rushed in New governance Dahe Road and Canton Street intersection Luoyang landscape water found at the scene, about 500 meters of a large number of dead fish floating in the river, there is a maximum weight of 14 pounds. “Here the fish more than 2 years, there have been eight such cases.” Mr. Long said fish farmers helplessly. 

500 meters of a large number of dead fish floating in the river

Reporters rushed to the nearby New governance Dahe Road and Canton Street intersection Luoyang landscape water, not come to place, you see dead fish floating in the water with a layer of white, but not too much. Nearby residents said, this has been fishing in the more than two hours, but there are floats kept up.

The landscape along the river about 500 meters, Dahe reporter saw the river fish are dead, about 5 centimeters. Stood by the river and saw the fish kept surfaced soon float to the fish died.

“I work from 8 am dead fish began fishing the river, and now has nearly three hours, the light fish had about 150 pounds, had to look at the situation in the afternoon fishing, the loss is certainly not small.” The river is responsible for the water Health Lee said he fished all the fish in the vicinity of digging buried, “the sudden death of so many fish, there is definitely a reason for people to eat unsafe, buried the dead fish to the market but also to prevent and reduce pollution. “Lee said.

At the scene, the reporter saw Dahe fish fish farmers would have died scooped onto the tricycle, “certainly can not eat these fish were collected at the focus buried.” Mariculturists Mr. Long frustration that can immediately harvest, it is a pity.

According to the site TUNG said he had fish for nearly four years, and had been all right, then from 2012 to the present, there have been a situation like this about eight times, “This investment has fry ponds more than 20,000, and now the direct loss of at least a few million. “Mr. Dong said the ponds where the fish have died regardless of size, the largest about 14 pounds of fish, fish have a slightly larger loss of 100 yuan.

Water samples and dead fish have been taken away tests did not rule out poisoning

“There have been such cases, although others have been suspected of being poisoned, but are not directly caught too.” Mr. Long analysts say the fish farmers, fish no direct death, but died before floated up from the bottom, it should be is a commonly known as “fishing essence” of the drug. “This drug does not directly kill the fish, but covered with a layer of plastic film equivalent on the water and let the water of oxygen, leading to fish deaths due to lack of oxygen.” Mr. Long said.

At the scene, the reporter interviewed Dahe Luolong Luoyang Municipal Public Security Bureau police the police. “We have were taken upstream and downstream of the two water samples and dead fish samples taken, sent to the relevant departments for testing.” The police said it could not determine if it was intentional poisoning, it could be water pollution caused by specific circumstances have to wait after the test results came out OK. “If indeed someone suspected of poisoning, we will conduct the investigation in accordance with law, be held criminally responsible.” Police said the scene.

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Hundreds of dead fish found floating along a canal in Pontedera, Italy

November 30, 2014

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An endless procession of dead fish. Since yesterday morning in the channel Usciana, that takes away the water from the marshes of Fucecchio to merge into the Arno to cataracts of Montecalvoli or in Scolmatore through Usciana New cutting the hill of Montecchio, were seen hundreds of dead carp, catfish and other species living in the canal and in the marsh. « To 10 – Enzo tells Erotica, secretary of the PRI of Santa Maria a Monte and formerly deputy in – I went by car over the bridge sull’Usciana in Ponticelli and noticed dead fish slide towards the mouth. I tried to contact the Arpat, but no one responded, being Sunday offices are closed and also from Florence got no answer. I also tried to contact the Municipal Police of Santa Maria a Monte, but there was no one in command » .

IN THE AFTERNOON, after a survey along the banks of the canal in the area of ​​the cut back of the stadium Ponticelli, the same Erotica alerted 112 of the police that the authorities intervene to take note of the situation. At that point it was warned the emergency number of Arpat. Meanwhile, the number of dead fish in the Montecalvoli and then, further down, in Arno, increased visibly. Even from the boat Andrea da Pontedera were reported at the mouth of the channel. The mayor of Castelfranco, Gabriele Toti, who learned of the die-off of fish from The Nation, said « tomorrow (this morning, Ed) will ask for information ARPAT » . The why of dead fish in Usciana not clear, although it is not the first time that happens. Some years ago the Arpat did know after making the analysis of water and on carcasses of fish, it was lack of oxygen in the channel because of the drought. If it happened again this time we’ll know sopo analyzes although drought there can speak.

YESTERDAY AFTERNOON to 15 . 30 dead fish were noted only in the stretch between Castelfranco and Ponticelli and then Montecalvoli and the floodgates of Usciana. Not from the bridge sull’Usciana area via Lungomonte in Castelfranco and even before the Cerri Holy Cross Bridge or a Cappiano. That it was of a spill or abnormal from the bridge of Castelfranco from the one that crosses the canal from provincial halls in Montefalcone? Even in this case will be the analysis of Arpat to determine. The fact is that the plague has caused no little alarm throughout the area.

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Hundreds of dead fish found floating on a lake in Tours, France

December 1, 2014

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Gardeners corner discovered the “massacre”, yesterday morning. Hundreds of dead fish floating on the surface. Also a foul odor emanating from the river. Already yesterday, Sunday, the first signs of asphyxia were visible in the arm of the Petit-Cher, along the lake of Bergeonnerie in Tours.

There are all kinds of fish: carp, pike (some are 40 cm), roach, bream, studs … Even large eels dying on shoals. Only cats fish are still alive, usually wedged in the bottom, they are now on the surface in search of oxygen.
On site, gardeners take all the same speech, like Jacques, who has already found the phenomenon two years ago: “The level decreased by 20 centimeters, the fish have more oxygen. It is shameful. Do you even lift
Why such a situation? A City Tours, explains: “This happens every year during periods of unemployment Cher. The drop in the water level, combined with the lack of rain and eutrophication of the environment, causes a lack of oxygen for the fish. “Putting unemployed allows for maintenance works on the Cher.
Faced with this excess mortality, “the city’s sanitation department has daily to remove dead fish,” is said.
If this drop in water level reveals many trash, it also shows the fish wealth of the middle who lives there.

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Thousands of dead fish wash up in Sinaloa, Mexico

November 29, 2014

Fish Kill Alert

For the fishermen of the area is an ecological disaster

Thousands of dead fish were found on the shore of the estuary Infiernillo in Mazatlan, Sinaloa, as reported fishermen, who complained that this place waste and garbage concentrate without any authority to monitor the area.

According to testimony, fish agonized for hours at the sight of all, so early warning spread between fishermen and residents of the Colonia Libertad, who live near the Juárez bridge.

For fishermen it is an ecological disaster and according to them, is the Municipal Board of Water Supply and Sewerage Mazatlan (Jumapam) responsible for the fact, as discharged untreated into the estuary waters, which affects fish causing mass mortality.

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Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on November 30, 2014 at 1:09am

Mohammedia: Thousands stranded fish

Thousands of fish were found dead on Saturday on the beach Sablette Mohammedia.
Mohammedia: Thousands stranded fish
Last updated on 01/09/2014 at 12:33

Thousands of fish have washed up on Saturday at the mouth of Wadi Nfifekh Sablette located on the beach in Mohammedia, reports the website ecologie.ma . And to emphasize that environmental police traveled to the scene to investigate the ecological disaster that recalls the one at Oued Moulouya there a few years.

Of water and fish samples were taken for analysis.

Also according ecologie.ma "saw that the waters of the Oued Nfifekh show no traces of pollution, it is not excluded that the reason for this disaster is an organic material spill, whose decomposition would have suffocated the wadi ". Several "structures" in fact reject their waste directly into the Oued upstream from the beach.

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Humpback whale found dead on Nantucket Beach, MA

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A 25-foot humpback whale was found dead on a Nantucket beach Massachusetts early Tuesday morning.

The whale was found on Miacomet Beach, said Maggie Mooney-Seus, spokeswoman for the Greater Atlantic Regional office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It had has no visible wounds, Mooney-Seus said. She speculated it could have died from disease or been hit by a boat.

Mooney-Seus said with a nor’easter expected to hit the region Wednesday, the whale might have to stay put for a while.

“They’re not anticipating being able to get in and move it at this point” because of the approaching storm, she said. It could also be a while until the carcass is removed because NOAA does not have staff who cover Nantucket and because marine officials’ focus is currently on the hundreds of sea turtles that have been washing up along the Cape with hypothermia.

“Right now, I guess we’re just monitoring the situation,” Mooney-Seus said.

Mooney-Seus said she did not know if a necropsy would be performed to determine the cause of death.

Mooney-Seus said people should stay away from the whale and keep their pets away, too.

The whale was found around 7:30 a.m. Tuesday morning, Environmental Police spokeswoman Amy Mahler said in an e-mail.

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Large-scale die-off of small seabird along Sonoma  Coast,  California

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Scientists up and down the West Coast are monitoring what appears to be a large-scale die-off of young Cassin’s auklets, small seabirds whose breeding grounds include a colony in the Farallon Islands west of San Francisco.

Emaciated, white-bellied birds have been washing ashore in Sonoma County and along a broad swath of California coastline since early November after a period of ocean warming in the Farallones region and disappearance of the tiny krill that provide their main source of food, researchers say.

Scientists are still collecting data, but the largest concentration of dead birds appears to be in northern Oregon, according to monitors in the Pacific Northwest. Birds have been washing up in Washington, as well.

Scientists say anyone who finds a dead bird should leave it alone so that monitors surveying the beaches can collect accurate records on the die-off.

Just what’s behind the phenomenon is far from clear, those involved in the research say.

One factor may in fact be the species’ recent breeding success, which means a particularly large number of inexperienced fledglings were introduced last summer to the harsh challenges of life at sea, they said.

But there’s concern, at least locally, about the drastic shift in ocean temperature and feeding conditions — from those that facilitated several very productive breeding seasons to those that prompted nesting pairs in the Farallones to abandon their second round of eggs in July — and the potential for linkage to climate change.

Jaime Jahncke, director of California Current at Point Blue Conservation Sciences, which has monitored the Cassin’s auklets in the Farallon National Wildlife Refuge for more than four decades, said mean sea surface temperatures recorded in July and August were the second-highest in 45 years, and rose substantially in September.

But “you can have ocean warming for different reasons,” he said.

An anomalous warming in 2005 and 2006 — though it was winter — resulted in a large die-off of birds, as well as a season in which the birds did not come to the Farallones to breed, Jahncke said. There was also a high mortality event in 1997 and ’98...

......In early November, beach monitors and others began spotting dying and, in most cases, dead Cassin’s auklets, both on the shoreline and in the water.

Members of the Gulf of the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Beach Watch team recently saw more than 100 at Salmon Creek Beach, said program manager Jan Roletto, sanctuary research coordinator. Scientists say thousands, at least, have died, though the longevity of adult Cassin’s auklets, generally, means there should not be a huge impact on the overall population.

In California, the dead and dying birds have been concentrated in the Point Reyes/Sonoma Coast area, south to San Luis Obispo, said Laird Henkel, supervisor of the Marine Wildlife Veterinary Care & Research Center, Office of Spill Prevention and Response for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

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Stranded whales die on Rototai beach, New Zealand

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In what became a Golden Bay community event, hundreds of people turned up at Rototai beach to see and touch three dead sperm whales that had become stranded.

The whales, which ranged in length from 14 to 17 metres long were located about one kilometre out on tidal flats from the beach carpark.

Local iwi gathered to bless the three whales, which were towed by tug boat to Farewell Spit last night, once the tide was high enough to move them.

Department of Conservation biodiversity programme manager Hans Stoffregen said DOC had received a phone call from Rototai residents saying there were whales milling about at sea.

"This morning we got a call from residents saying they were stranded."

Golden Bay kaumatua John Ward-Holmes said iwi would later harvest the teeth and jawbone, which were regarded as "taonga". He said local iwi Ngati Tama, Te Ati Awa and Ngati Rarua were kaitiaki of the teeth and jawbone, and that iwi were working in partnership with DOC on the whale stranding.

While smaller pilot whales strand in Golden Bay every year, sperm whales, which are the largest of the toothed whales, aren't such a common sight in Golden Bay.

Stoffregen said the last sperm whale to be washed up in Golden Bay was "Tamati", who stranded at Puponga in 2007.

Rototai resident Gaya Brabant said she and her family noticed the whales offshore last night and called DOC. Initially she thought they were playing. She said her son saw six whales further out to sea.

She wondered if a large amount of blue bottles had played any role in attracting the whales to come into the shallow waters.

Comment by SongStar101 on November 26, 2014 at 7:22am

Dead whale washes ashore on Pensacola Beach

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Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge has performed a necropsy on the beached Beaked Whale found Monday on Pensacola Beach.

According to Ed Cake, former adjunct professor at Southern Mississippi University and a former Federal Commissioner of the Gulf Islands National Seashore in Ocean Springs, Miss., the procedure begins with a gross exam, consisting of an overall exam of the whale's exterior in which they look for any injury or wounds.

They then perform an internal exam of the body, looking for any disease or injury not showing on the outside. They determine the sex of the whale, take tissue samples and look for parasites and any bone injuries.

The Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge began the necropsy 3:30 p.m. Monday at their facility in Fort Walton Beach, according to Holly Young, an animal care technician at the refuge. The necropsy procedure was finished around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday. It is unknown when the results will be determined.

Original story:

Beach visitors were caught off guard early Monday morning to find a deceased Beaked Whale on shore near Margaritaville Hotel on Pensacola Beach.

The 20-foot whale beached Sunday night, said Cassity Bromley, chief of science and resource stewardship for the Gulf Islands National Seashore.

"The whale had washed up and was half buried right where the tide was coming in," said Josh Bell, a hotel employee. "They brought a bulldozer-type thing and a big tractor, dug it out, tied it up around the tail area, picked it up and took it across the beach."

Bell said he works on the beach every day, and he has seen sharks and fish wash ashore but never anything like a whale.

Santa Rosa Island Authority used a backhoe loader to remove and transport the whale to the Emerald Coast Wildlife Refuge in Fort Walton Beach, which is part of the Marine Mammal Stranding Network. The whale will undergo a necropsy to verify its species and the cause of death.

Bell and co-worker Belinda Radford were among those on the beach who watched Santa Rosa Island Authority load the whale for transport.

Radford was concerned about how the whale died, but was confident a cause would be determined and steps taken if necessary to prevent future deaths.

"It was crazy," she said. "It was beached and half buried, but they were out there real quick."

Comment by Starr DiGiacomo on November 25, 2014 at 6:52am

http://www.betawired.com/500-sea-lions-found-dead-on-northern-coast...

500 sea lions found dead on northern coast of Peru

500 sea lions were found dead on the northern coast of Peru recently, prompting officials to launch a full-scale investigation into the massive mysterious die-off on Sunday.

Right now there’s precious little information that has been uncovered as to how or why the sea lions were killed. The only thing known at this point is that the bodies of the aquatic mammals were found in states of severe decomposition, indicating that several days or even weeks might have gone by between the event that led to their deaths and the discovery of the remains.

The Peruvian environmental police launched their investigation after a local governor leveled accusations at fishermen of poisoning the sea lions. The animals routinely come ashore to forage for food, though sea lions are also adept at catching prey in the water as well.

The bodies of both sea lion pups and adult sea lions were discovered in the Ancash region on Anoncillo beach, according to the Andina news agency of Peru. The carcasses were removed quickly as they were deemed to be a health hazard in such numbers, with authorities continuing their investigation throughout the cleanup process.

If poisoning is behind the massive die-off, this wouldn’t be the first time such an event occurred. News agency Andina reported last year that a group of around 50 dead sea lions were found to have been killed by poison, with the method traced back to fish laced with deadly pesticides that were provided to the animals. Meanwhile, another incident earlier in November saw the bodies of nearly 200 sea lions recovered alongside several sea turtles and dolphins; this previous incident is still under investigation, but similarities between the 2013 poisoning and both incidents this month have been drawn already, according to several anonymous sources.

Peru’s coastline has also been the scene of massive death tolls over the course of 2012, when around 900 dolphins and at least 5,000 birds were found washed up dead on the country’s shores, prompting environmental conservation groups to launch their own investigations into the matter independent of the Peruvian government.

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