What the heck is going on in this world with all the bird and fish die offs lately? This is truly getting very scary. Here is an article on CBS News today that I just read. I really don't think that these die offs are just a natural occurance in the birds and fish. Yes, we did have the honey bee colony collapse for a period of time but this is totally something not natural overall in my opinion. Some might be natural due to weather changes but the worldwide phenomenon now occurring with the same overall symptoms doesn't quite add up right.
(CBS) The estimated two million dead fish found floating in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland recently are not another sign of the apocalypse, but were instead probably killed by the cold weather, officials told The Baltimore Sun.
Water quality was also ruled out as a possible culprit for the mass die-off of mostly spot and some croaker fish, the Sun reports.
Spot fish are notorious for being vulnerable to the cold, and large winter kills of spot have been documented in Maryland at least twice before, a Maryland Department of the Environment spokeswoman told the Sun, with about 15 million dying in early 1976 and a smaller number in 1980.
The mass Chesapeake fish die-off joins a growing list of reports from around the globe of mysterious fish and bird deaths.
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Brazilian authorities also reported recently that fishermen found several tons of dead fish, sardines mostly, near the port of Paranagua, reports the website Mediaite. Authorities there are investigating the reason for the deaths.
In New Zealand, Fisheries officials are investigating the death of hundreds of snapper near Coromandel Peninsula beaches, reports the daily New Zealand Herald. Beachgoers found the fish many with their eyes missing - dead on the sand.
Several other mass bird kills have been reported in recent days, including in Western Kentucky, Arkansas and Louisiana. Fireworks and other causes have been attributed to the incidents.
You might be a redneck if you blame fireworks for the deaths of thousands of birds
Medsummerflopping around on the beach, Liguria Italy1,682 posts
las63: They are saying most of the dead birds are to decomposed for autopsies The ones found in Tennessee.
I think if they can do autopsies on human found in the woods and left by some psycho they can do these birds as well. Just my thoughts on having them done. It would not be easy, but maybe possible.
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