40,000+ dead Velvet swimming crabs wash up on UK shores

[Agorism]

40,000+ DEAD CRABS WASH UP ON UK SHORES

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/mass-bird-fish-deaths-worldwide-phenomenon/

[torchbearer]

activate the missile defense shield!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_TkKZZyzUvio/SU7qlw4ovsI/AAAAAAAACTc/tr5CEnZlGSc/s400/2nd+coming+7.bmp

[oyarde]

Are they edible ? Could make animal feed or fertilizer or something out of them .

[Agorism]

Is that the rapture?

[torchbearer]

Is that the rapture?

its either the rapture, or the mexicans have grown wings and are coming with a vengeance for our jawbs.

[raiha]

http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/hundreds-of-dead-snapper-washed-up-on-new-zealand-beach-20110105-19fdr.html?from=watoday_sb


Hundreds of dead snapper have washed up on Coromandel beaches on the North Island of New Zealand, leaving holidaymakers perplexed.

The mysterious incident came as the southern United States was hit with a second unexplained mass bird death within a week.

People at Little Bay and Waikawau Bay, on the north-east of the peninsula, were stunned when children came out of the sea with armfuls of the fish and within minutes the shore was littered with them.

Advertisement: Story continues below Charlotte Pearsall, whose family have lived at Little Bay for the last 30 years, said she had never seen anything like it.

"It was so surreal," she said. "It's such an incredible waste - it could've fed the whole northern tip of the Coromandel."

People with binoculars said the snapper stretched as far as they could see and boaties reported "a carpet of floating fish further out to sea all along the coast".

"We initially thought 'woohoo a free feed' but they had really cloudy eyes and you could see the birds had been at them. Some of them had no eyes," Pearsall said.

Her parents called the Department of Conservation and were told it was most likely the fish had starved due to weather conditions, but Pearsall did not think that was the case as many of the fish looked big and healthy.

The Fisheries Ministry are currently investigating the situation and said they could not yet say what the cause was.

"Any commercial operators must record and report their catch," said ministry field operations officer for Waikato, Bay of Plenty and the Coromandel Brendon Mikkelsen.

"They're equally as concerned as we are . . . it's not in anybody's interests for fish to be abandoned at sea."

Mikkelsen said it had happened before but given the quantity of fish it was very concerning.

People saw floating snapper in the water as early as 5am yesterday but the ministry only received reports 12 hours later.

Waikato Times
Many of these fish were eyeless. They are our yummiest and most expensive fish.
I can't help thinking somehow the Louisiana Oil Spill has something to do with these reports.

[Zippyjuan]

So long and thanks for all the fish!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojydNb3Lrrs

[RonPaulFanInGA]

Is that the rapture?

This stuff with the fish and birds is a sign. That small Christian group (http://www.christianlifenews.co/will-may-21-2011-be-the-end-of-the-world/852001/) was right all along!

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2610/christreturn.jpg

[Cowlesy]

Paragraph #2 of the first story.


Tony Child, Thanet Coast Project manager, told the Star that the same thing happened two and five years ago. He suspects that the cold temperatures are to blame.

[Zippyjuan]

Apparently large groups of animals dying suddenly are not that uncommon- though it may seem like it recently in the news.
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20110106/00bd03c0-0f87-433d-ac64-e5b8f6447c43

SETH BORENSTEIN
From Associated Press
January 06, 2011 5:57 PM EST
WASHINGTON (AP) — First, the blackbirds fell out of the sky on New Year's Eve in Arkansas. In recent days, wildlife have mysteriously died in big numbers: 2 million fish in the Chesapeake Bay, 150 tons of red tilapia in Vietnam, 40,000 crabs in Britain and other places across the world.

Blogs connected the deadly dots, joking about the "aflockalypse" while others saw real signs of something sinister, either biblical or environmental.

The reality, say biologists, is that these mass die-offs happen all the time and usually are unrelated.

Federal records show they happen on average every other day somewhere in North America. Usually, we don't notice them and don't try to link them to each other.

"They generally fly under the radar," said ornithologist John Wiens, chief scientist at the California research institution PRBO Conservation Science.

Since the 1970s, the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center in Wisconsin has tracked mass deaths among birds, fish and other critters, said wildlife disease specialist LeAnn White. At times the sky and the streams just turn deadly. Sometimes it's disease, sometimes pollution. Other times it's just a mystery.

In the past eight months, the USGS has logged 95 mass wildlife die-offs in North America and that's probably a dramatic undercount, White said. The list includes 900 some turkey vultures that seemed to drown and starve in the Florida Keys, 4,300 ducks killed by parasites in Minnesota, 1,500 salamanders done in by a virus in Idaho, 2,000 bats that died of rabies in Texas, and the still mysterious death of 2,750 sea birds in California.

On average, 163 such events are reported to the federal government each year, according to USGS records. And there have been much larger die-offs than the 3,000 blackbirds in Arkansas. Twice in the summer of 1996, more than 100,000 ducks died of botulism in Canada.

"Depending on the species, these things don't even get reported," White said.



a bit more at the link.

[oyarde]

http://www.watoday.com.au/environment/hundreds-of-dead-snapper-washed-up-on-new-zealand-beach-20110105-19fdr.html?from=watoday_sb


Many of these fish were eyeless. They are our yummiest and most expensive fish.
I can't help thinking somehow the Louisiana Oil Spill has something to do with these reports.

Gulls would get the eyes .

[oyarde]

Apparently large groups of animals dying suddenly are not that uncommon- though it may seem like it recently in the news.
http://enews.earthlink.net/article/us?guid=20110106/00bd03c0-0f87-433d-ac64-e5b8f6447c43


a bit more at the link.

Yeah , this stuff is common and has always happened .

[HOLLYWOOD]

THE COVE... TAIJI, JAPAN

http://www.thecovemovie.com/

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KRD8e20fBo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-M-TlTsqh8

DENMARK Slaughters Dolphins/Whales by the 1,000's
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_B9vvbYH0g

[oyarde]

As soon as that biologist said this had happened two other times recently due to weather and this was likely weather related , I would have fileted one of those snapper and threw it in the broiler and tried it : )

[oyarde]

This stuff with the fish and birds is a sign. That small Christian group (http://www.christianlifenews.co/will-may-21-2011-be-the-end-of-the-world/852001/) was right all along!

http://img42.imageshack.us/img42/2610/christreturn.jpg

Bet ya a case of beer it is not correct .