'One million' dead sardines clog Redondo Beach marina

[Mimi]

'One million' dead sardines clog Redondo Beach marina

The BBC's Rajesh Mirchandani explains what scientists think caused the fish to die

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.

Officials said the fish had sought shelter from rough seas and soon exhausted the water's oxygen supply.

They said they would "recycle" the fish carcasses into fertiliser.

It's quite an astonishing sight. The water is carpeted in places with the carcasses of dead fish. They are jammed up in between the rocks and some of the pleasure boats, and underwater they are lining the shallow sea floor.

There are dozens of people pulling up nets of dead fish but it's going to take several days to clean up the marina. The fish are being dumped into wheelbarrows and taken to giant containers.

Officials say they believe six of these containers could be filled, totalling 150 tonnes of dead fish.

From here, the carcasses will be taken to a landfill site, where they will be turned into fertiliser. Some residents say they are quite upset. One woman woke overnight on her boat and saw fish filling the harbour. As the night wore on, they started to die in increasing numbers.

"We need to get rid of them," Redondo Beach Police Sgt Phil Keenan was quoted by the local Daily Breeze newspaper as saying.

"This is going to create a terrible pollution and public health issue if we don't."

With the temperature on Tuesday already passing 68F (20C), the dead fish were beginning to smell.

Roughly 1,400 boats are moored at the harbour, including about 500 with full-time residents.

In some places, the dead fish were so thick boats were unable to leave the marina, officials said.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12683360

The article says: They get lost easily? They used up all the oxygen in the marina?

[Richard Myers]

Yes, it happens all the time.  Just like the earthquakes. Just the normal course of events in life.  Nothing new.

The whole earth is in shambles. Not because of nature, but because of sin. The devil is active and we shall see the evil and devastation continue to mount as the day of judgment draws near. It is not May 21 as some have been taught, it is not 2012 as many more fear. But, it is near. The Bible is faithful to tell us by the signs of the times that the soon coming of Jesus is near. 

There will be a false revival and there will be false Christs. There will be a religious law made to force all to worship the beast. An image to the beast is being formed and it will gain political power in the United States. We are seeing this right before our eyes. The disasters we witness are part of the overall devices to deceive men in these last days.  Many will see that they have brought the judgments upon the earth. Not realizing they are from Satan, they will attempt to appease God by yielding their outward obedience to the false claims being made by the "religious ones". 

Yes, things are out of the normal order. Dead birds falling from the sky, dead bees, dead fish, pestilence, earthquakes, wars and rumors of wars, famine, economic disasters. What more do we want before we see that the Bible is speaking of our day. Just as it was before the great flood, so it will be before the second coming of Jesus. Evil will be called good, and good will be called evil.

[Mimi]

Is this credible? Just wondering ...


Dead fish = earthquake predictor?
An Azeri scientist posits that the mass death of Californian sardines foretold the Japanese earthquake
Miriam ElderMarch 14, 2011 09:33

An Azeri scientist has linked the recent incident of California's mass fish death to the earthquake in Japan.

"Animals, they feel everything. They run away from earthquakes however they can," Gurban Jalal Etirmishli, the general director of the Azerbijan Science Academy's Republican Center for Seismology, told Life News, a Russian tabloid.

More than a million sardines washed up on California's Redondo Beach last week. Scientists say they suffered from a lack of oxygen, but some reports have said they were found to have high toxin levels.

"During the first underground movements on March 8, toxic gases and even radiation could have oozed out, becoming a reason for the death of the fish," Etirmishli said. "If, in the near future, a similar thing happens, it can be a sign of a coming earthquake."

Source

[Marelis]

I don't know if that is credible, Sybil.

I'd completely forgotten about the dead sardines with everything else that's happening!  I'd even forgotten about the Middle East this week until it was tacked onto the tail end of the news.  And all but forgotten about Christchurch.  It's hard to keep up.