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US officials fear a public health hazard after an estimated one million sardines that inexplicably washed up in a California marina begin to rot.
The carcasses coated the surface of the King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach, near Los Angeles, and piled as high as 18in (46cm) on the marina floor.
Hundreds of fish have been found dead in Ventura Harbor. This is the second large fish kill in Southern California this year. This time, hundreds of dead fish are floating in Ventura Harbor. The phone calls started coming into the Ventura Harbor Patrol around 6 a.m. Monday. Boaters were already noticing a large number of dead fish floating in the water. One officer said that in the past year, there have been three or four times that this has happened, and in recent days, he was worried that this was going to happen again. Once again, something's fishy along our Southern California coastline: Another fish die-off, this one in the Ventura Harbor.
Sea lions, seagulls, and pelicans have been swooping in to eat the fish. The rest are being cleaned up by the Ventura Harbor Patrol. "We got the majority," said Hummer. "We probably got 90-something percent of the dead fish out of the harbor. And I think Mother Nature, the birds, the sea lions will take care of hopefully the rest of them." This fish kill is on a much smaller scale compared to what was seen in Redondo Beach early last month when 2.5 million sardines were killed weighing roughly 175 tons.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
On March 8 : 'One million' dead sardines clog Redondo Beach marina
US officials fear a public health hazard after an estimated one million sardines that inexplicably washed up in a California marina begin to rot.
The carcasses coated the surface of the King Harbor Marina in Redondo Beach, near Los Angeles, and piled as high as 18in (46cm) on the marina floor.
Then on March 11, we know what happened.
And now this...
Biological Hazard - North-America
Hundreds of fish have been found dead in Ventura Harbor. This is the second large fish kill in Southern California this year. This time, hundreds of dead fish are floating in Ventura Harbor. The phone calls started coming into the Ventura Harbor Patrol around 6 a.m. Monday. Boaters were already noticing a large number of dead fish floating in the water. One officer said that in the past year, there have been three or four times that this has happened, and in recent days, he was worried that this was going to happen again. Once again, something's fishy along our Southern California coastline: Another fish die-off, this one in the Ventura Harbor.
Sea lions, seagulls, and pelicans have been swooping in to eat the fish. The rest are being cleaned up by the Ventura Harbor Patrol. "We got the majority," said Hummer. "We probably got 90-something percent of the dead fish out of the harbor. And I think Mother Nature, the birds, the sea lions will take care of hopefully the rest of them." This fish kill is on a much smaller scale compared to what was seen in Redondo Beach early last month when 2.5 million sardines were killed weighing roughly 175 tons.
Now of course a big earthquake won't hit each time... but hopefully this isn't a sign of things to come. All we don't need now is a CME that could trigger a big quake...
With all the activity going on in Nevada, we never know.edit on 19-4-2011 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources says this is a natural occurrence called a "fish die off".
The fish are called "gizzard shad". They are a weak species that easily dies off in cold weather.
It's likely they were dead under the ice for some time.