Is it Fukushima or El Niño causing 10,000 dead squid to wash up on the Chilean shores of Santa Maria Island over the past week? Mass die-out of cephalopods, birds on the West Coast and over 25 in Alaska and British Columbia certainly should raise concern and response from scientists world wide to determine the cause of the abnormal mass death of a variety of creatures.
This most recent incident in Chile, with thousands of decomposing squid bodies washed up on the shore of the small island, has prompted health concerns. The stench of death is overpowering. Chilean National Services for Fisheries and Aquaculture (Sernapesca) has gathered samples of the dead squid and the water to determine the cause. At this time, the die-off is truly a mystery.
This phenomenon, according to some experts, could be do to higher than usual seawater temperature, but pollution, such as radiation from Fukushima, has not been ruled out.
Video footage of the massive squid die-off can be found on the next page.
That could almost work if
THERE WASNT$#%&!@*STILL PUMPIN OUT INTO THE OCEAN!
Hosea 4:1-3 KJV
Hear the word of the Lord , ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land. [2] By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood. [3] Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away.
That place must smell like$#%&!@*!
It’s still leaking.
Stumped really. Radiation still dumping into the water.
It is not a new thing
SEP 3 2015, 12:13 PM ET
60,000 Antelope Died in Four Days and No One Knows Why
by TIA GHOSE, LIVESCIENCE
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It started in late May. When geoecologist Steffen Zuther and his colleagues arrived in central Kazakhstan to monitor the calving of one herd of saigas, a critically endangered, steppe-dwelling antelope, veterinarians in the area had already reported dead animals on the ground.
“But since there happened to be die-offs of limited extent during the last years, at first we were not really alarmed,” Zuther, the international coordinator of the Altyn Dala Conservation Initiative, told Live Science.
But within four days, the entire herd — 60,000 saiga — had died. As veterinarians and conservationists tried to stem the die-off, they also got word of similar population crashes in other herds across Kazakhstan. By early June, the mass dying was over.
Saigas
In May 2015, nearly half of all the saigas, a critically endangered antelope that roams the steppe of Kazakhstan, died off. Albert Salemgareyev
Now, the researchers have found clues as to how more than half of the country’s herd, counted at 257,000 as of 2014, died so rapidly. Bacteria clearly played a role in the saigas’ demise. But exactly how these normally harmless microbes could take such a toll is still a mystery, Zuther said.
“The extent of this die-off, and the speed it had, by spreading throughout the whole calving herd and killing all the animals, this has not been observed for any other species,” Zuther said. “It’s really unheard of.”
Saigas, which are listed as critically endangered by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, live in a few herds in Kazakhstan, one small herd in Russia and a herd in Mongolia. The herds congregate with other herds during the cold winters, as well as when they migrate to other parts of Kazakhstan, during the fall and spring. The herds split up to calve their young during the late spring and early summer. The die-off started during the calving period.
Field workers were able to take detailed samples of the saigas’ environment — the rocks the animals walked on and the soil they crossed — as well as the water the animals drank and the vegetation they ate in the months and weeks leading up to the die-off.
The researchers additionally conducted high-quality necropsies of the animals, and even observed the behavior of some of the animals as they died. The females, which cluster together to calve their young, were hit the hardest. They died first, followed by their calves, which were still too young to eat any vegetation. That sequence suggested that whatever was killing off the animals was being transmitted through the mothers’ milk, Zuther said.
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Eww! Shocking photo shows bacteria on kid’s hand 0:40
Tissue samples revealed that toxins, produced by Pasteurella and possibly Clostridia bacteria, caused extensive bleeding in most of the animals’ organs. But Pasteurella is found normally in the bodies of ruminants like the saigas, and it usually doesn’t cause harm unless the animals have weakened immune systems.
So far, the only possible environmental cause was that there was a cold, hard winter followed by a wet spring, with lots of lush vegetation and standing water on the ground that could enable bacteria to spread more easily, Zuther said. That by itself doesn’t seem so unusual, though, he said.
Another possibility is that such flash crashes are inevitable responses to some natural variations in the environment, he said. Zuther said he and his colleagues plan to continue their search for a cause of the die-off.
I will be adopting a pig soon. I have tip wait until my oldest dog passes first he is 14 & very arthritic. ..& I need to build a ramp so my pig friend will be able to get in and put of my home 🙂
Oh sorry I posted on wrong feed. My bad
Oh please stop with the BS!