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On Aug. 5, in Port St. Joe, Florida, city officials closed a public boat ramp following an unexplained fish kill in St. Joseph’s Bay that caused hundreds of dead fish and crabs to wash ashore. Witnesses sighted a brown, sludgy material roughly six miles offshore.
Florida State Officials blame the combination of an unusual rise in water temperatures and low oxygen levels in the water as the probable cause for a fish kill that caused scores of dead fish and crabs to wash up along the shoreline in Florida’s Frank Pate Park. Officials stressed that there is no evidence that this particular event was related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
There is no Oxygen in the Ocean
Red tide was not the cause of the tens of thousands of dead fish washing up on the beaches in Massachusetts, the Jersey shore, Florida and in the Delaware bay: they were suffocated.
Most of the fish were menhaden, an important little fish for all of the bigger ones.
BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say they have the sicknesses to prove it.
On Aug. 5, Donny Mastler, a commercial fisherman who also works on boats, was at the Dauphin Island Marina.
“I was with my friend Albert, and we were both slammed with exposure,” Mastler, told IPS, referring to toxic chemicals he inhaled that he believes are associated with BP’s Corexit dispersants. “We both saw the clumps of white bubbles on the surface that we know come from the dispersed oil.”
Both of their eyes were watering and their throats were burning, so Albert went to sit in his air-conditioned truck, while Mastler headed home.
“I started to vomit brown, and my pee was brown also,” Mastler said. “I kept that up all day. Then I had a night of sweating and non-stop diarrhea unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.”
READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE: http://morichesdaily.com/2010/08/bad-timing-fish-kill/On Aug. 5, in Port St. Joe, Florida, city officials closed a public boat ramp... more
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Eric Stiles, vice president for conservation and stewardship of New Jersey Audubon, said he had never heard of such a massive die-off of menhaden. They are a “critical fish” in the ecology of the bay, he said, so the fish kill is likely “highly significant.”
Death of sea creatures growing at an alarming rate and officials are baffled as to the cause. Millions of dead fish are washing ashore, possibly as a result of low dissolved oxygen levels in the water caused by hot summer temperatures or possibly a sign of major trouble ahead.
Earlier this week dead fish were found floating ashore In Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Officials explained that the fish were killed due to a lack of oxygen caused by warm waters.
Warm water or something else?
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Dead creatures of the sea are washing ashore up and down the east coast of the United States as officials scramble to find a cause. Hundreds of thousands of dead fish are washing ashore, possibly as a result of low dissolved oxygen levels in the water caused by hot summer temperatures.
In the latest incident the Department of Environmental Protection is investigation a major wash-up of dead fish along the Delaware Bay in Cape May County. The cause of the die-off is not known and is under investigation.
A Growing Problem
Just this Monday, beach residents awoke to a foul smell when thousands of dead fish washed ashore on a small island on the east side of Fairhaven, Massachusetts.
Officials explained that the fish were killed due to a lack of oxygen caused by warm waters. All of the fish were Menhaden, which are especially sensitive to such changes, and they may have been dead for days prior to washing up on the beach.
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Waterborne chemicals leached from plastics and detergents, including bisphenol A (BPA), may have contributed to significant lobster die-offs in the waters of Long Island Sound over the last decade, researchers say.
Hans Laufer, a research professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, has found that by interfering with hormones crucial to young lobster growth, chemicals such as bisphenol A can slow the lobsters’ molting patterns and interfere with regular development, leading to body deformations, susceptibility to disease, and potential death.
As many as half of the lobsters tested in areas where lobster populations have plunged showed high levels of alkylphenols, a group of chemicals derived from detergents, paints, and plastics, according to researchers at the University of Connecticut.
Those chemicals interfere with hormones crucial to the growth of young lobsters, doubling the time it takes for lobsters to molt their shells and create new hard shells, and making them more susceptible to disease, said Hans Laufer, a research professor in the university’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology.
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On Monday, beach residents awoke to a foul smell when thousands of dead fish washed ashore on a small island on the east side of Fairhaven, Massachusetts, CNN reports.
Officials explained that the fish were killed due to a lack of oxygen caused by warm waters. All of the fish were Menhaden, which are especially sensitive to such changes, and they may have been dead for days prior to washing up on the beach.
Just last month hundreds of dead sea animals and dead penguins have washed up on the shores of Sao Paulo in Brazil. Scientists are investigating the cause of these deaths.
According to the Institute of Environmental and Natural Resources, around 530 penguins, five dolphins and other sea creatures were found on the shores. Although no link has been made with the Gulf Oil Disaster or Toxic Dumping, all signs point to a growing pollution issue that may manifest itself in years to come at even greater levels. Many are concerned over the rate at which mass die-off events are occurring in the world’s oceans.
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