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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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Starr DiGiacomo
http://cdn.localwireless.com/wap/news/text.jsp?sid=31&nid=21672...
Hundreds of Dead Frogs at Chesterfield Lake
CHESTERFIELD, MO (KTVI)– Chesterfield resident Terri Garbo likes to take a stroll each morning through a local park.
On Tuesday she walked the path around Central Park's seven acre lake.
Jul 20, 2012
Howard
Beach Littered with Thousands of Dead Fish in Florida (July 24) -
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2178268/Apocalypse-Sunbathe...
Two-miles of Ormond Beach were covered with thousands of whiting, spot and sea trout carcases, shrivelling up in the heat. The thousands of fish began to wash ashore around 2 p.m. on Sunday, according to News13.
Determined visitors walked for miles in either direction to escape the dead creatures, but they filled the water and the beach on either end.
Jul 24, 2012
Howard
Mysterious, Gas-Like Odor Reported Across Wide Area North of San Diego, CA (July 24th)
http://www.10news.com/news/31301884/detail.html
A mysterious odor was reported along the North (San Diego) County coast on Tuesday by residents In Encinitas, Del Mar, Carmel Valley and Solana Beach.
Lifeguards in Encinitas were first to report the strong, pungent odor at about 5 p.m. The odor was described as a gas-like smell rolling in off the ocean.
Soon after, 10News was flooded with calls. Residents from the coast all the way to Rancho Bernardo and 4S Ranch reported experiencing the smell. Some complained of headaches and outdoor activities were canceled.
One Del Mar resident who did not want to be identified was inside the library in Cardiff at about 5 p.m. when the gas-like odor filled the entire building with the doors closed.
"There was none when I walked in that door and within 10 minutes, the entire library was filled," she said.
Eventually, she got in her car and drove to try and get away from the smell. At about 5:30 p.m., the woman parked at San Dieguito County Park and took a photo of what she believes is some kind of aerosol compound she says fell from the sky and coated her car windows.
"I tried to wipe it and it was black and sticky and tried to put my window down and it smeared," she said.
She is convinced it was gas that was dispersing something with an oil component.
She feels what occurred Tuesday was no accident and wants the people responsible to answer up.
"It's just not acceptable to say, 'We don't know, nobody knows'... which we've heard over the years time and time again when these things happen," she said.
The source of the odor remains unclear. San Diego Gas & Electric is investigating and has reported no problems. Fire departments in the North County have also not found any leaks.
Late Tuesday night, 10News received a statement from the City of Solana Beach that read, "Please do not be alarmed. The apparent smell of gas reported from Oceanside to La Jolla is not a leak of gas. The smell is caused by natural occurring condition from the ocean."
Jul 27, 2012
lonne rey
Thousands of fish die as Midwest streams heat up
LINCOLN, Neb. – Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 degrees.
"Those fish have been in these rivers for thousands of thousands of years, and they're accustomed to all sorts of weather conditions," he said. "But sometimes, you have conditions occur that are outside their realm of tolerance."
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/story/2012-08-07/fish-kill-mid...
Aug 9, 2012
Howard
Fish Die by the Thousands Along Galveston Texas Coast (August 12) -
Low oxygen levels (caused by excessive dissolved methane?) are believed to have caused a major fish kill mostly along Galveston’s West End beaches, an official said. Thousands of shad lined the beaches west of the seawall, Galveston Island Beach Patrol Chief Peter Davis said Sunday morning.
Davis spoke with officials from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, learning the cause of the fish kill was likely low oxygen levels.
Davis had reports Saturday from bay fishermen and found isolated pockets of dead fish on the West End, but he noticed larger concentrations this morning at Terramar and Bermuda beaches. "Very few" dead fish were found at Stewart Beach, but some were visible against the rocks near the 61st Street.
The fish kill was apparently not related to an algae bloom, Davis said.
Aug 12, 2012
lonne rey
Swedish experts baffled by 'mystery' elk illness
A unexplained illness has been plaguing the elk community of southern Sweden, with experts perplexed as to why so many are being found dead or dying.
http://www.thelocal.se/42530/20120810/
Aug 13, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/site/?pageid=event_desc&edis_id=BH...
Biological Hazard in Guam on Monday, 13 August, 2012 at 11:11 (11:11 AM) UTC.
However, as Dr. Biggs has pointed out this is the first time that they've seen this at Pago bay. "Over the past we've noticed areas where it happens commonly actually are Tumon bay is one and down along the southeast coast kind of from Ipan beach park down to first beach those areas something about them seems to be where fish kills repeatedly during these low tides during the middle of the day,” said Tibbats. Nevertheless Dr. Biggs is concerned that something else maybe the cause of this strange event. "Another thing that we'd like to point out is because it hasn't happened at Pago bay before that maybe the sedimentation could have the same effect because if you have a big load of water bringing down a lot of dirt with it that dirt could mix with the salt water as well and particulate matter is known to clog the gills of the fish and make it so that water can't pass and they can't breathe,” explained Dr. Biggs. The marine lab professor says that choking from sedimentation would also result in dead fish with mouths open as seen in the photos. Pago bay has been known to have a lot of sedimentation after heavy rains. "You can see it every time it rains really hard there's a plume that goes all the way out and then extends for miles out into the ocean,” said Dr. Biggs.
Tibbats says there is no way to tell for sure what killed these fish because he received the email over the weekend and by then the fish were gone. Tibbats says there are other potential causes for example fresh water can flood the reef flats killing saltwater fish. There is also the possibility that toxins from the land are washed into the water. Tibbats says that if anyone notices dead fish washing up on the shores anywhere on guam to try and collect some of the fish and then contact the Department of Agriculture's Division of Aquatics and Wildlife Resources so they can study the dead fish and get a better determination of their actual cause of death. Senator Sam Mabini is concerned with the dead fish found at Pago bay and she has sent a letter to the Guam Environmental Protection Agency requesting their immediate attention to Pago bay's current condition.
Aug 13, 2012
Sevan Makaracı
More than 10,000 earthworms found dead in a parking lot of 250m2 North Japan
Mr. Kobayashi is living near the parking lot. He comments he found earthworms dead in the evening of 8/5/2012. It kept increasing and now it’s scattered around in the 250 m2 of the area.
There are about 500 dead worms in the space for one car. Because 16 cars can park there, more than 10,000 worms are dead in the whole area including the passageway.
Former director of insects museum visited the place to comment it is rare to see this many worms dead at once. It’s an ordinary type of earthworm....
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Aug 13, 2012
lonne rey
Major Fish Kill Reported On Texas Coast
GALVESTON (August 13, 2012)--Hundreds of thousands of dead fish have washed up on the beach in Galveston, where crews went to work Monday to remove the dead fish.
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Aug 14, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://m.nbcphiladelphia.com/nbcphilly/pm_108054/contentdetail.htm?...
Residents in a Cumberland County community were left wondering Tuesday morning what caused dozens of birds to drop dead from the sky.
Residents along Peach Drive in Millville found at least 80 birds -- mostly red-winged blackbirds -- on the ground dead having fallen from trees and the sky.
"Crazy -- something out of a movie," said resident Michelle Cavalieri who saw the birds fall from the sky.
The birds caused a bloody mess on roadways in the residential neighborhood.
"They’d get up and try and fly and they were out of control so they’d crash and fall again," said resident Jim Sinclair. "It was just strange."
Animal control, public health officials and other emergency crews were on the scene later Tuesday morning collecting dead birds to try and figure out exactly what caused so many of them to die.
Cumberland County Public Information Officer Troy Ferus said Tuesday claiming that it wasn't something environmental that killed the birds but rather (NOT) -- a granular pesticide put down legally by nearby Ingraldi Farms.
Aug 15, 2012
Howard
Originally reported in the dozens, now in the thousands of birds, falling from the sky in New Jersey.
Thousands Of Birds Drop Dead From The Sky (August 15) -
http://kplr11.com/2012/08/14/thousands-of-birds-drop-dead-from-the-...
Aug 15, 2012
lonne rey
It's a mystery: what's causing fish kill off Myrtle Beach?
Something is killing fish and sting rays in the ocean off Myrtle Beach's coast, but exactly what's going on out there is a mystery.
All along the beach from around 28th to 68th Avenues north on Friday, beach-goers were finding mixed species of dead fish floating in the surf or washing up on shore.
"It's sting rays, there's pompano, there's whiting, flounders, little bit of everything," said Kerry Caramanis of Virginia.
The fish did not have any obvious signs of trauma, he said. One man and his family told NewsChannel 15 they found 12 dead sting rays in a small stretch of beach.
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Aug 20, 2012
Howard
Tens of Thousands of Dead Fish in River Weaver, U.K. (August 21) -
http://www.winsfordguardian.co.uk/news/9884707._Thousands__of_dead_...
VAST concentrations of dead fish have surfaced along the River Weaver in Winsford.
Eyewitnesses report (tens of) thousands have perished along the water course, from the flashes down to Newbridge.
The Environment Agency (EA) has classed the incident as Category 1– its highest degree of severity.
The EA is awaiting laboratory results on water samples from the affected area to determine what caused the rapid de-oxygenation of the river.
The EA is working alongside the Canal and Rivers Trust and Winsford and District Anglers Association (WDAA) to return oxygen levels to normal.
The slick, or ‘slug’ of the de-oxygenated water took one day to travel from Bottom Flash to Newbridge, just beyond the Winsford Salt Mines, off New Road.
The water at Newbridge would usually read between 50 to 100 per cent oxygenation.
An early reading by the EA returned a reading of just 2 per cent.
The EA set up aerators – water pumps designed to increase the amount of oxygen in the river - on Sunday.
On Monday morning, further EA employees arrived to set up jet hoses, which fired hydrogen peroxide into the water, releasing concentrated bursts of oxygen.
Guy Humphreys, fisheries manager for WDAA described the moment he discovered the dead fish.
He said: “I got a call about a tree that was down, overhanging the water. I went to have a look and noticed in the river there were all these dead fish.
“There were so many dead or dying that I could have walked across the water on them. There’s tens of thousands of fish have been killed.”
Mr Humphreys promptly phoned the EA.
Meanwhile, people back up the river in Winsford began to witness the grizzly scene at the flashes.
Deputy mayoress of Winsford, Hilary Kennedy, said: “I was on the high Street walking the dog when a friend of mine came towards me from the direction of the flashes and stopped to talk.
“She told me that she was shocked to see there were a lot of dead fish in the water around the marina, the Town Bridge and all along the river.
“She said that there were policemen there and a heck of lot of other men, plus someone in a canoe.”
The river has a rich diversity of species, including bream, roach, silver fish, carp, tench, perch and pike.
Jane Hamilton, fisheries and biodiversity team leader fo the EA, said: “Officers have been working around the clock to identify what was affecting the fish, and taking action to help them.
“We have been investigating the cause, and will know more following results of tests later in the week. Once we have this information we can look into further options to tackle the problem.”
EA employees worked until midnight on Sunday.
However, Mr Humphreys felt the organisation could have responded to his call earlier.
“I called it in about 3pm on Saturday, and unfortunately no one’s been available to come down and have a look until Sunday morning. During that time, it’s continually killing fish,” he said.
At 8am on Sunday, Guy was phoned by Winsford Town Clr Brian Clarke, who had also called the disaster in to the EA.
Mr Humphreys continued: “At 9.30am, a man from the EA turned up. We went up and down the river and took oxygen readings. It was dinner time by the time we got the oxygenation equipment set up.
“If EA had been quicker, we could have averted this, but they don’t have the man power. I don’t blame the people on the ground. They were working very hard.
“It’s a major disaster for us. We had an incident on the River Dane a few years ago. The stocks in the area were just recovering from that, but this has just killed it.
“It takes 15-20 years to get stocks back up to the way they were. It’s soul destroying. It’s not just fishing either, there’s the knock on affect on all wildlife in the area.”
Aug 22, 2012
Mark
just like the behaviour of spiders before, spinning huge webs, the caterpillars are gettingin on the act too:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2195935/The-hungry-caterpil...
http://www.zetatalk.com/transfor/t154.htm
Aug 31, 2012
lonne rey
Whales die in mass stranding off Scotland
Sixteen pilot whales have died in a mass stranding off the coast of Fife.
The mammals were part of a group of 26 pilot whales stranded at Pittenweem, near St Andrews.
The remaining whales are being kept alive by vets from British Divers and Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR), with help from the emergency services including Fife fire service.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/9515647/Whales-die-in-...
Sep 2, 2012
Moderating Staff
Posted by Jonny Ready;
Porbeagle Shark Acts Out Of Character
According to Wikipedia, attacks on humans are rare for this type of shark, even my housemate says that they're pretty placid creatures. Also bear in mind that this particular shark was seen to be hunting seals. Again, out of character for this type of fish.
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Sep 3, 2012
Howard
Tens of Thousands of Dead Fish Litter Ontario Shore of Lake Erie (Sept 5) -
Tens of thousands of rotting fish are lining a 40-kilometre stretch of shoreline along Lake Erie, reports the provincial environment ministry, which is investigating the cause.
A spokesperson for the Ontario Ministry of Environment said Tuesday the kill was reported on the weekend. So far it appears the fish may have died from the affects of a naturally occurring lake inversion rather than a spill, but cautioned the investigation is continuing.
The question now is which agency is responsible for cleaning up the rotting carcasses of thousands of yellow perch, carp, sheepshead, catfish, big head buffalo and suckers, which kept untold beachgoers from enjoying their Labour Day weekend.
“It (the water) was quite putrid really … I had never experienced anything like this,” said Neville Knowles, of London, Ont. and cottager at Rondeau Provincial Park for more than 50 years.
The dead fish stretch from west of the fishing village of Port Stanley in Elgin County to the village of Morpeth in Chatham-Kent or just east of Rondeau.
“There was a significant number of fish, tens of thousands,” the environment ministry’s Kate Jordan told the Star.
“At this time of the years it is common to get lake turnover or lake inversion and you usually do get a few fish killed … but this smell smelled like a sewer … and on top of the water there was a brown kind of milky film that was at the water’s edge,” said Knowles, who first noticed the smell Friday.
He said after he took a dip Friday afternoon he quickly took a shower to wash to smell away.
The bulk of the fish washed up on shore east of the Rondeau. In some spots, the fish were piled on top of each other.
Jordan said it has not yet been decided which agency, federal, provincial or local agency will have to foot the cleanup bill.
“We are having discussions with Environment Canada, the health unit and natural resources about that now,” she said.
Sep 6, 2012
Howard
Thousands of dead seagulls accompanied yesterday's massive fish kill in Lake Erie.
Scientists Baffled as Thousands of Dead Fish and Birds Wash Up On Shore of Lake Erie (September 6 ) -
Tens of thousands of fish and seagulls have washed up dead on the shores of one of the world's biggest lakes and scientists are at a loss to explain why.
The lifeless bodies of the freshwater fish and seagulls were discovered spread along a 25-mile stretch of Canadian shoreline by Lake Eerie which stretches between Canada and the U.S.
Sep 7, 2012
Beva
List of 317 events related to slaughter animals around the world, only for the year 2012
317 in a little over eight months, it's huge! Here is the list of animal deaths in 2012:
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Sep 13, 2012
Howard
Millions of Dead Fish in Salton Sea (Sept 10) -
"San Diego is the center of the bow stress on the N American continent, as we have so often mentioned. San Diego early on had bursting water mains and other signs of the bowing and bending that has since come to afflict the rest of the continent, from Alaska to the tip of Mexico. The establishment struggles to explain such stretch stench occurrences in terms other than the bow stress with consequent rock movement, but fails. They are citing here a combination of heat, low oxygen in the water, and winds that just happen to stir up water at the bottom of the sea! Admitting the truth would be so much easier!" ZetaTalk
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Sep 16, 2012
Howard
Thousands of Catfish Die in Brisbane River, Australia (Sep 18) -
Dead and bloated catfish are washing up on the banks of the Brisbane River in their thousands, leaving scientists searching for an explanation.
SeqWater officers were seen scouring the banks of the river just outside the centre of Lowood yesterday, where scaly bodies were scattered along rocky sections of the bank or bobbing belly-up in the steady current.
It is believed hundreds of fish were found dead last week and more were counted yesterday - totalling in the thousands.
The dead fish were found as far upstream as the Lockyer Creek.
Only catfish seem to have been affected, leading to speculation that a virus may be sweeping through fish populations in the river.
Department of Environment and Heritage Protection executive director Andrew Connor said there would be no explanation for the fish kill until water and fish samples could be properly analysed.
"EHP officers will collect water and fish samples for laboratory analysis," Mr Connor said yesterday.
"The only species reported to be affected are catfish, with the majority of the dead fish located around Lowood with small numbers being found further upstream as far as Lockyer Creek."
There have been no reported fish deaths in other parts of the Brisbane River.
Somerset Mayor Graeme Lehmann yesterday said he was unaware of the fish kill and was trying to make contact with the local fish stocking association.
Cr Lehmann said the Brisbane River played host to a fishing competition last weekend which went by without reports of dead fish.
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Sep 22, 2012
lonne rey
Pilot Whales Beach Themselves In Indonesia, Most Die
MAUMERE, Indonesia -- Indonesian officials say 46 pilot whales have beached themselves on a southern island. All but three have died.
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Oct 3, 2012
Howard
7 Tons of Dead Fish Scooped off Florida Beaches (Oct 9) -
More than seven tons of dead fish have been scooped up from Sarasota County beaches alone -- from Casey Key south -- in just two days.
John Nunn, on vacation from Kentucky, said Lido was great, but two days ago on Caspersen the beach was so littered with fish that there were too many to count.
"We generally spend most of our time on Caspersen, which day before yesterday was terrible," Nunn said.
Manasota Key appears to be the epicenter of the fish kills, according to county reports and Mote Marine Laboratory's beach conditions report.
Large numbers of the fish have been washing ashore on Blind Pass Beach, with reports of additional fish kills along beaches in Venice, Nokomis and Casey Key.
Conditions are worse offshore, said Jim Wasilewski, a boat repairman who lives on Casey Key and tried to take a trip with friends to Boca Grande on Saturday. He described brown water, thousands of tiny dead fish and the noxious air.
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Oct 10, 2012
Howard
Hundreds of Thousands Of Dead Fish in North Carolina River (Oct 17) -
http://www.newbernsj.com/news/local/massive-fish-kill-continues-in-...
A massive fish kill on the Neuse River that has been ongoing for nearly a month has resulted in thousands of menhaden washed up on beaches near Neuse Harbor.
Mitch Blake, Neuse Riverkeeper, viewed the area Tuesday afternoon, saying there were several hundred thousand dead fish washed up on the beach and in the river.
For 21 days, mostly Atlantic menhaden have been dying over a large portion of the river from New Bern to Hancock Creek, Blake said in an email.
Some of the dead menhaden have ulcers that National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration officials have identified as Aphanomyces invadans from six samples analyzed in Beaufort. Fish samples were taken from the Neuse River in an impaired region by the Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation at the first sign of menhaden showing problems, Blake said.
“Over the 21-day period fish have been reported dead from New Bern to Hancock Creek and include areas in Slocum, Beard, Goose, Upper Broad, Northwest and Duck Creek,” he said.
Very few other species have been reported dead during the fish kill, except for isolated spots around Bay Point, which also had red drum, striped bass and spot.
“At this time we continue to see large schools of Atlantic menhaden, some floating, some are sinking to the bottom upon death,” Blake said. “An accurate count has not been totaled due to the massive area but just (Tuesday) I counted areas that were over 500 yards in length with approximately 90 dead fish per foot. With numbers like this it could easily go into the millions. In these areas there are dead, decaying, and in some cases just bones to reveal the timeline and magnitude of the kill.”
Joe Freemon, who lives in Neuse Harbor, said that on Tuesday there was a solid belt of dead fish on the beach of the river that bordered his property.
“You could stand there and see lots of others floating on top of the water,” Freemon said. “It’s the biggest (fish kill) I’ve seen and I’ve been on the water here over 50 years. You could smell it a couple of hundred feet away. … It’s a bad situation and unfortunate. ”
Blake said he has been talking to a lot of people in the scientific community about what is causing the fish to die.
“I’m trying to put together a team to analyze it better,” Blake said.
As a nonprofit and staff of three to cover the Neuse Basin, The Neuse Riverkeeper Foundation depends on community support and volunteers.
Jill Paxson, environmental senior specialist with the N.C. Division of Water Quality, said for the past three weeks her office has been inundated with calls about menhaden fish kills, and not only in the Neuse River. There has been large kills in the Pamlico Sound also, she said.
Paxson said as a precaution people should not go in the water around the fish or let their pets in the water and should wash if they do come in contact with the fish or water.
People usually don’t eat menhaden. They are on the bottom of the food chain and are eaten by larger fish like tuna and sharks, Paxson said.
Oct 18, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-news/asia/story/40-whales-die-...
40 whales die in mass stranding on Indian island
NEW DELHI (AFP) - About 40 whales died in a mass stranding on the west coast of India's remote North Andaman island in the Bay of Bengal, wildlife officials said on Thursday.
"The short-finned pilot whales were found by fishermen who alerted us and investigations show it was a case of mass stranding," said Mr Ajai Saxena, a wildlife official in Port Blair, capital of the islands.
Mr Saxena said no previous mass stranding had been reported in the Andamans, but that it was a natural phenomenon that occurs when whales get disoriented and are unable to swim back into deep water.
Stranding is also thought to occur when a pod follows a sick or an injured whale into the shallows, experts say.
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http://poleshift.ning.com/profiles/blogs/tsunami-buoy-53046-evidenc...
Oct 26, 2012
lonne rey
Migrating birds lost at sea
An appalling combination of fog and winds around England’s coast this week have created terrible conditions for migrating birds, with some fishermen reporting to the RSPB the deaths of many exhausted and disorientated ‘garden’ birds plunging into the sea around their vessels.
Disorientated
Along England’s south coast, the RSPB has received several reports of thousands of disorientated and exhausted birds drowning in the sea. One respondent, a professional boat skipper, said: “While fishing about 10 miles south of Portsmouth, we witnessed thousands of garden birds disorientated, land on the sea and most drowning. Species included goldcrests, robins, thrushes and blackbirds. The sky was thick with garden birds. I estimate I saw 500 birds die and that was just in our 300-yard sphere. On the way home we just saw dead songbirds in the water: it was a harrowing sight.”
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Oct 27, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.kcci.com/news/central-iowa/Fish-kill-stumps-DNR/-/935708...
Fish kill stumps DNR
A fish kill at the Iowa Great Lakes in northwest Iowa has stumped experts.
White and yellow bass in the lower part of the chain are being affected.Iowa Natural Resources Department biologist Mike Hawkins told Sioux City station KTIV that preliminary results from samples don't show any killer virus or bacteria
He says there's no danger to humans.
The fatality rate has dropped, but dead fish are still surfacing. Hawkins says the number is significant, but he doesn't have an exact count.
The Iowa Great Lakes are composed of several glacial lakes in Dickinson County. The three principal lakes are Spirit Lake, West Okoboji Lake and East Okoboji Lake.
Oct 28, 2012
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.freep.com/article/20121018/NEWS06/310180370/Hundreds-of-...|head
Hundreds of bird deaths sound alarm on problems in the Great Lakes
Volunteers and biologists walking the beaches of northwestern Michigan's Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore the past few days have counted nearly 300 dead or dying loons and other fish-eating birds -- all victims of botulism that has scientists concerned about the changing ecology of the Great Lakes.
"This last couple days has been off the charts," said Dan Ray, a biologist in charge of a project monitoring the botulism among fish-eating birds at the park. "I'm sitting here looking at our graph and for the loons, this appears to be one of the worst seasons."
Strong southwest and northwest winds in recent weeks explain why the dead loons are coming ashore, possibly from many miles into Lake Michigan.
The death of loons -- with their haunting two-note cry and striking looks -- gets the public nervous, too, Ray said.
"It's almost strange from a biologist's standpoint," he said. "When loons show up (dead), people freak out."
On Tuesday, Ray walked 2 1/2 miles of shoreline near the mouth of the Platte River with Eleanor Comings, one of the volunteers, and found 88 dead birds, mostly loons. On Wednesday, Comings walked the same stretch and found 22 more loons.
After seeing today’s story in the Free Press and on freep.com, several people have reported more dead birds, including loons. Calls and emails came from as far south as Onekema and as far north as Charlevoix.
Bernie Misko, who has a home on Lake Michigan about three miles north of the Portage Lake channel, said he found five loons on Tuesday while walking along the beach.
“One of them had coyote tracks walking up to it and around it, but it didn’t bother" the carcass, Misko said.
The botulism issue, long a problem in southern U.S. reservoirs, first was a significant concern in Lake Michigan in 2006, Ray said, and was a problem again in 2007, but has been mostly in check the last few years. In 2011, only about 40 loons succumbed on the beaches of the national lakeshore, which Ray said seems to be like the end of a funnel where infected birds from northern Lake Michigan wash ashore.
Many of the birds are migratory, coming from Ontario, the Upper Peninsula and Wisconsin, as well as from northern Michigan, biologists said.
Oct 28, 2012
Howard
A massive fish kill from an algae bloom in the middle of Autumn, as sunlight is diminishing?
Galveston Texas Cleans Up 15,000 Dead Fish (Oct 31) -
Steven Mitchell, regional biologist at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD), said that a high concentration of algae bloom depleted the oxygen level, killing fish that include Gulf mehaden, and smaller numbers of speckled trout and redfish.
The level of dissolved oxygen was measured at 1.5 milligrams per litre, he said.
"There were quite a few fish that were dead, and a whole lot on the bottom that hadn't surfaced yet, said Mitchell, who is assigned to TPWD's Kills and Spills Team. The dead fish at the bottom of the lake, he said, will likely surface in the next few days.
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Nov 2, 2012
lonne rey
Over 500 pigeons die mysteriously in Bhagalpur
Patna: More than five hundred pigeons suddenly dropped dead at a village in Bihar's Bhagalpur district over the last four days, causing residents, some of them pigeon-keepers, to fear that something was amiss.
District officials are still to visit the site and conduct an inquiry. Over 500 pigeons died mysteriously in Bath village near Sultanganj in Bhagalpur, about 250 km from the state capital.
"We were shocked, and we cannot understand why it happened," Subodh Kumar Singh, a keeper of pigeons who lost 250 birds in two days, said. Another pigeon keeper, Mohan Singh, said: "We need some manner of inquiry into this. Why did such a large number of pigeons drop dead in a matter of days?
Source
Nov 6, 2012
lonne rey
50,000 dead starfish found on Irish beach
Extreme weather conditions have killed tens of thousands of starfish and left them strewn across a sheltered beach.
A carpet of pink and mauve echinoderms, a family of marine animals, appeared yesterday morning on Lissadell Beach in north Co Sligo.
The adult starfish, measuring between 7cm and 20cm in diameter and estimated to be up to 50,000 in number, stretched along 150 metres of the strand.
Marine biologist and lecturer at Sligo Institute of Technology Bill Crowe speculated that they had been lifted up by a storm while feeding on mussel beds off shore.
"The most likely explanation is that they were feeding on mussels but it is a little strange that none of them were attached to mussels when they were washed in," he said.
He added that if they had died as a result of a so-called 'red tide' or algal bloom, other sealife would have been washed ashore with them.
"These were almost all adult size and the typical starfish variety that is found in the North Atlantic but there was nothing else mixed in with them," he said.
Surveying the unusual scene, he placed some in a bucket of seawater to test whether they were alive, but while this prompted a slight response from one or two of the creatures, the vast majority were dead.
Source
ZetaTalk on previous similar incident
Nov 12, 2012
KM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2232285/RSPB-investi...
RSPB investigates the mysterious deaths of thousands of migrating birds lost at sea
By Damien Gayle
PUBLISHED: 12:46 GMT, 13 November 2012 | UPDATED: 15:02 GMT, 13 November 2012
The RSPB are investigating the mysterious deaths of thousands of common migratory birds out at sea.
Fishermen have reported seeing hundreds of seemingly exhausted and disoriented garden birds dropping from the sky into the waters off England's south coast.
At the same time, the east coast, from Northumberland to Kent, has seen the arrival of many birds, including redwings, fieldfares, bramblings and blackbirds, perhaps numbering in their millions.
A forlorn chiffchaff peers out from the portholes of a fishing boat: The RSPB are investigating reports of thousands of lost migratory birds dying at sea
Who's a pretty boy then? A fisherman grins as a lost song thrush sits on his shoulder
One professional boat skipper told the conservation charity: 'While fishing about 10 miles south of Portsmouth, we witnessed thousands of garden birds disorientated, land on the sea and most drowning.
'Species included goldcrests, robins, thrushes and blackbirds. The sky was thick with garden birds. I estimate I saw 500 birds die and that was just in our 300-yard sphere.
'On the way home we just saw dead songbirds in the water: it was a harrowing sight.'
Martin Harper, the RSPB’s conservation director, said: 'The scale of these reports are truly shocking, and it has the potential to adversely affect the status of species which may be declining for other reasons.'
Nov 14, 2012
lonne rey
Pilot whales stranded on New Zealand beach
WELLINGTON: A pod of 28 pilot whales that were left stranded on a New Zealand beach on Thursday are likely be put down as there is little chance of refloating them, wildlife officials said.
Twelve of the whales that beached themselves at Golden Bay on the South Island had already died and the rest were in poor condition, the Department of Conservation (DOC) said.
DOC regional manager John Mason said the whales beached during the highest tide of the month, significantly reducing the chances of getting them back in the water.
"Normally they strand mid-tide but these are high and dry right at the top of the beach," he told AFP.
"The next tide won't reach them and we're mulling our options at the moment, most likely euthanasia."
Source
Nov 15, 2012
Howard
Thousands of Dead Gizzard Shad in Lake Erie (Nov 16) -
Lake Erie is again plagued with thousands of unexplained fish deaths, this time along the U.S. waters of Dunkirk Harbor. On Sept 6th, tens of thousands of rotting fish lined a 40-kilometre stretch of shoreline along Ontario shoreline of Lake Erie.
Nov 17, 2012
mrkontra
A Cliff Swallow (Petrochelidon pyrrhonota) breeding in North America and wintering in South america is found in Öland, an island of Sweden. This has never ever happend before. This year the Cliff Swallow has also been found in The Azores, Ireland, England, France and in Iceland. Strong winds seems to have them drifting across the atlantic ocean.
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Nov 18, 2012
Howard
More Unexplained New Madrid Bird Deaths (Nov 20) -
"I can't think of any explanation for what happened." says Judy Carmicheal who lives just about a hundred feet from where a flock of starlings died. On Saturday she came out to see the birds dead in the road on Fremont and Erie Street away from power lines and trees.
"None were on the sidewalk. There weren't any in the grass. They were just all right there and I just about counted everyone." says Carmichael. She counted about 100 birds. Garrett Lane works along the intersection and when he showed up some of the birds were still alive.
"Most of the birds were standing right here just leaning up against the wall so when I walked up they wouldn't fly away so that was kind of odd to me. Why aren't the birds flying away--they just weren't able to fly." says Lane. There were no dead birds on his lawn. He doesn't know what happened to the birds that couldn't fly.
Biologist with the Missouri Department of Conservation said in the winter starlings are usually in a flock for protection but they don't know what happened. "When a bad event happens it impacts the whole flock and in this case the mystery is what was that event." says Francis Skalicky with the Missouri Department of Conservation.
The event couldn't have been weather related since on Saturday morning conditions were mild and calm with a lot of sunshine.
"If they were sick, they wouldn't all just die right then and there." says Carmichael.
Similar starling die offs have occurred in Arkansas. Scientists think fireworks caused the deaths but no one knows for sure. There were no reports of any booms or firework explosions on Saturday.
The Missouri Department of Conservation collected a few of the birds and put them in a freezer. It hopes to find some one to test the birds. The Springfield-Greene County Health Department only tests birds with rabies and doesn't plan to test these birds.
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Nov 21, 2012
Howard
Dead birds were found in McKinney, Texas near where mystery booms were heard 2 days later in Corsicana.
There's an eerie scene in McKinney. There are dozens of dead birds lining White Avenue and Central Expressway.
We contacted the Collin County Game Wardens Office. A member came out and looked at that bird. While it was bleeding from it's mouth it had not been shot and appeared to die only recently.
By our count there are close to 50 dead birds, mostly Grackles, Starlings and Pigeons.
While this is a heavily traveled area, no one seems to know how or why the birds are dying.
The Collin County Game Warden's office visited had not received any calls about the birds prior to NBC 5 contacting them this afternoon.
Dec 7, 2012
Sevan Makaracı
Thousands of squids wash up dead on California shores (Dec 10)
California Department of Fish and Game scientists are investigating why thousands of dead squid washed up on Aptos-area beaches roughly from Rio del Mar to Pleasure Point on Sunday.
Many of the squid remained on the sand at Rio del Mar State Beach on Monday, and a sea of seagulls gorged themselves. State Parks officials said they were just advised of the issue Monday and that their resource specialists had just started looking into it.
Fish and Game promised a statement later Monday.
In late October, about 100 squid beached themselves in Pacific Grove, the Monterey Herald reported.
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Dec 11, 2012
Howard
Birds Normally in the Arctic Turn Up in South Florida (Dec 17)
Sightings of the northern oceangoing razorbill birds are increasing off Florida, raising the estimated number to 1,000, said Michael Brother with the Marine Science Center in North Florida.
On Friday about 250 were spotted in the ocean off Miami and up to 200 were witnessed flying off Boynton Beach, he said. "It's crazy."
Most of the birds are on the state's east coast but some have been seen on Florida's west coast up to St. Petersburg, he said.
But for some reason — that scientists haven't pinned down — the birds began being spotted off Florida during the first week of December.
Sources
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-northern-razorbills-...
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2012/dec/14/florida-sightings-of-norther...
Dec 18, 2012
KM
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2253352/Sunfish-inva...
Sunfish invasion continues as third massive marine beast washed up in Norfolk
By Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 16:42 GMT, 26 December 2012 | UPDATED: 16:42 GMT, 26 December 2012
Hoards of giant tropical Sunfish have invaded the North Sea because of strong winds, scientists have revealed.
The massive Sunfish - which weigh an average 157st each and measure 15ft by 12ft - have been spotted in Lincolnshire, Kent and Norfolk.
Large shoals of Sunfish - the largest bony fish in the world - have been tempted away from the mid-Atlantic by a massive hatch of jellyfish, which is their main food.
Marine expert Paul Lee with the giant sunfish he stumbled across earlier this month in Norfolk
Dec 26, 2012
KM
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/rescuers-race-save-beach...
Whale beached at Breezy Point, Queens, focus of rescuers' desperate efforts
The 40-foot whale might be pregnant. First responders keep water on the bleeding, flailing giant as experts from the Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation race to help.
By Henrick Karoliszyn AND Larry Mcshane / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Published: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 1:32 PM
Updated: Wednesday, December 26, 2012, 9:07 PM
Todd Maisel/New York Daily News
First responders keep the struggling whale covered with water in an effort to keep her alive.
The giant blue-grey finback, bleeding from its mouth and tail, fought for its life as the beachfront enclave did its best to soothe the stranded beast.
Dec 27, 2012
Howard
Thousands of Dead Fish Removed From Sarasota Florida Beaches (Dec 28)
Workers finally removed 4.5 tons of dead fish from two public beaches in Sarasota County this week.
In all, more than 9,000 pounds of dead fish have been picked up off Blind Pass Beach and Manasota Beach on Manasota Key over the last two days.
Dead fish were littering the sand, piling up as the waves came crashing in.
"I was really surprised I was shocked they were here and no body was cleaning them up and that there were so many," said Brea Oliver from New York.
Sources
http://www.bradenton.com/2012/12/28/4331951/sarasota-county-removes...
http://www.abc-7.com/story/20442144/red-tide-causing-charlotte-co-f...
Dec 29, 2012
Howard
Massive Fish Kill in Eastern Australia (Dec 28)
Tallow Creek includes small lakes and wetlands and is located seven kilometres south of Byron Bay, behind the dunal area along Tallow Beach, and flows intermittently into the Pacific Ocean.
The beach extends for some three kilometres to the south to Broken Head.
Robert Graham from Byron Bay Deep Sea Fishing Club photographed the fish kill and is very unhappy with the situation .
"I went out this morning (Sunday) and the first hundred meters of the river is still clear and there is people swimming in there. Twenty meters around the corner there is five thousand fish on the banks and you can hardly walk into it because it stinks so badly," said Mr Graham.
A spokesman for the NSW Department of Primary Industries confirmed that the agency has been made aware of the issue and that "it is not yet determined what the cause is."
The Cape Byron Marine Park covers an area of around 22,000 hectares.
The marine park extends from Brunswick Heads in the north to Lennox Head in the south, and from the mean high water mark and upper tidal limits of coastal estuaries, seaward to the three nautical mile limit of NSW waters.
Source
http://www.northernstar.com.au/news/fish-kill-at-tallow-beach/1700691/
Dec 30, 2012
Howard
Hundreds of Dead Birds Fall From Sky in Seymour Tennessee (Dec 30)
Dead birds littered the highway and surrounding fields after falling from the sky near Dogwood Hills subdivision on Boyd Creek Highway Sunday afternoon.
Sgt. Robert Stoffle of the Sevier County Sheriff's Department said a call about the birds came in around 1:15 p.m. He said a witness reported seeing the birds in flight before turning back around to see them on the ground.
"It covered one lane of traffic," Stoffle said of the bodies of the birds. They appeared to be starlings.
While the vast majority of the birds were dead by the time The Mountain Press photographer arrived, several were still alive, convulsing and flopping their wings on the ground.
A count of the birds on the scene stopped at around 50, when not even half of the visible birds were tallied. Perhaps dozens more were scattered in a nearby field, which was flooded from the recent rainfall. As far as 60 yards from the main site of the birds, individual starlings were found.
A local resident, who didn't want to be named, said he was quite shocked to see the large group of dead and dying birds on the road.
"I was (driving) to the house ... and I see a couple of kids standing in the road. I'm like, 'what are these kids doing in the road?'
"When we get closer, next thing you know, there's birds everywhere and they were all dead. When I first came upon it, when the kids were kicking them out of the road, there had to be 300 birds there, at least. It was crazy. There's some even in the field and the water and stuff, too, it's crazy."
Officials from the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency responded and took two to three birds from the scene for testing, Stoffle said. A state highway department truck with a snow blade attachment scraped the birds from the highway onto the shoulder.
Source
http://www.themountainpress.com/news/x1791818529/Birds-fall-from-sk...
Dec 31, 2012
Howard
Thousands of Dead Fish Along 6 Miles of New Zealand Beach (Jan 1)
A massive clean-up of rotting fish is underway on the Coromandel Peninsula where thousands of snapper have washed up since New Year's Eve.
"There would have been close to 10km to 12km of coastline covered with fish from what I could see . . . and all of them snapper," a Port Jackson local said. "It's gutting to see them all like that."
Rotting fish now litter beaches from Port Jackson to Fantail Bay, on the western shore of the peninsula.
It is not the first time this has happened at the small settlement.
Thousands of dead snapper also washed ashore in 2011 at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, causing residents to wonder at the time whether they were starving or poisoned, although that was deemed unlikely.
The Ministry of Fisheries investigated that incident as well but it still remains unsolved.
Fisheries compliance manager Brendon Mikkelsen said the Ministry for Primary Industries was investigating the latest incident but could not confirm the number of dead fish found on the shore.
But local residents said the dead fish numbered in the "thousands".
It was "unlikely" the fish died of natural causes and Mikkelsen was calling for information from commercial and recreational fishers who were in the area in the days before the find.
Mikkelsen said the incident was first reported on New Year's Day and ministry staff had been to the area as part of the investigation.
Source
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/8141655/Dead-snapper-cover-Coromand...
Jan 4, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.wcsh6.com/news/national/article/226823/44/Dead-and-dying...
Dead and dying arctic birds are showing up in Florida
1:44 PM, Jan 4, 2013
NAPLES, Florida (WBBH) -- Arctic birds that are supposed to be up north are ending up in Southwest Florida. They're about 1,000 miles from where they should be.
They're called razorbills and they look a little like penguins.
They're migrating to Southwest Florida and dying within hours. We found out how Hurricane Sandy might be responsible months after it made landfall.
Walking down the beach near Clam Pass, Ed Selby saw a bird he'd never seen before on the shores of Southwest Florida.
"They look a little bit like penguins. This is the first time I'd ever seen the birds here. In fact, I think it's the first time anyone's seen them here," said Selby, a volunteer with the Conservancy of Southwest Florida.
He found two dead razorbills - an arctic migratory seabird not native to Florida.
Over the past few weeks wildlife clinics have taken in dozens of the protected birds. Most were already dead; others were found exhausted and starving and died within hours.
Jan 5, 2013
Howard
A massive fish kill in North Carolina with an explanation that portrays the Cover-up's current level of desperation: a mile of beach littered with hundreds of thousands of dead fish because they all crammed into a narrow creek and suffocated. (Jan 11)
Hundreds of thousands of dead fish washed ashore this week at Masonboro Island, according to the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources.
The dead fish, identified as Atlantic Menhaden, are strewn along the island's beaches and in the water, stretching over a one-mile area from the Mason Inlet jetty to Loosins Creek, officials reported.
The menhaden - a small, silvery filter-feeder - appear to have clustered by the thousands in a narrow area at Loosins Creek, causing dissolved oxygen levels in the water to plummet to nearly zero in less than one hour, killing the fish. According to reports, this can happen when menhaden tighten their school, swimming closer to together in what's thought to be an effort to avoid predators.
A monitoring station in the area, maintained by the state Division of Coastal Management, recorded a significant drop in dissolved oxygen levels in the early morning hours of Jan. 8.
State employees are still monitoring the area, but cautioned that dead fish will most likely continue to surface along the island throughout the weekend.
The dead fish pose no risk to humans.
Coastal Management, which manages Masonboro Island through its Coastal Reserve and National Estuarine Research Reserve Program, was first notified of the fish kill by a member of the public. The N.C. Marine Patrol also responded to a report from the public late Wednesday afternoon.
Jan 12, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.katc.com/news/dead-birds-in-duson-a-mystery/
Dead Birds in Duson A Mystery
Posted: Jan 15, 2013 10:18 PM by Steven Albritton
Updated: Jan 15, 2013 10:27 PM
An odd discovery was made Tuesday in Duson. More than 30 birds were found dead, and as of now no one knows why. The birds had no visible injuries and were just scattered in an area next to a sugar cane field.
"I came here this morning and saw birds all over the ground. One of them fell when I was walking around the property," James Wing said.
When Wing found the dead birds his first thought went to a deadly disease.
"I thought maybe it was West Nile. It was the first thing that popped in my head because they say, you see a dead bird you think it's West Nile," he said.
Wing called a state biologist to come in and investigate. The biologist collected around 30 of the dead birds for testing in Baton Rouge.
"We saw about a dozen of them that were ill. He said we'd probably see more until they could figure out what was the cause," Wing said.
Despite all the stormy and unusual weather, the biologist from the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries says it was likely not a factor in the deaths. Testing will give them a better idea of what happened by Thursday.
Jan 16, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.wmbfnews.com/story/20595315/thousands-of-dead-fish-wash-...
Jan 15 2013
Thousands of dead fish wash ashore in Pawleys Island, SC
PAWLEYS ISLAND, SC (WMBF) When you go to the beach you don't expect to find hundreds of dead fish covering the shore.
Pat Hawkins was heading out to the beach Tuesday morning to enjoy the weather, but when she saw the sea of dead Menhaden fish she was in shock.
Pawleys Island isn't the first place this week to see the dead Menhaden fish on their shores. DeBordieu Beach had the same issue the day before, according to Chief Michael Fanning of the Pawleys Island Police Department.
Events like this happen from time to time, last year an influx of Star Fish were found on the same beaches, Fanning said.
It may be confusing to the people who live nearby, but Fanning says the state is looking into what may have killed the fish.
Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) and Department of Natural Resources (DNR) visited the area Tuesday and took water samples. No results were available at this time, but experts think a lack of oxygen caused the dead Menhaden to wash ashore.
The fish fell victim because they are more prone to feel the effects of the loss of oxygenated water, said Dr. Dan Hitchcock of Clemson University.
"When it's one species like that the species is menhaden all over the beach that's usually indicative of a low dissolve oxygen situation because they tend to be more fragile," Dr. Hitchcock said.
The dead fish are washing out to sea and with the help of the sea gulls the shore will soon be clear.
Jan 16, 2013
Starr DiGiacomo
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/PHOTO--Dead-fish_13415778
Jan 17, 2013