The 1% will need lots of food

We are way due for earth's sixth mass extinction cycle.

Bad, bad Rex!

lack of shellfish.
I think plankton are even shellfish. Anyway, they're at the bottom of the food chain and can't make strong shells if the ocean gets too acidic.
I'd read the articles to see if this is mentioned, but I'm too disheartened, frankly. Maybe another day...

top predator fish were dying...with full stomachs.
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the thing was, they usually also ate a higher quality fish (for them) that provided things they needed
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so there was enough food...just not in proportions of what they needed.

I guess I could've just googled that question

I'd heard about larger shellfish but hadn't thought about the smaller ones. That's pretty much the foundation of the food chain.

for Congress to worry about. Like suing the Prez for not invading Colorado to enforce federal law...

They usually happen in summer; hotter water holds less oxygen.

Are there more of them than usual?

"When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money" ~ Alanis Obamsawin

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Potential connections in other oceans?

Of course, with acidification, bottom trawling, toxins, dead zones, full-on collapse of reefs and massive industrial overfishing lending a hand.

These are definitely "interesting" times.

coupled with much warmer ocean water temps in the summer for the west coast.

on that possible "biggest El Nino ever"? The info I have been seeing says an El Nino is expected (though as always there is a chance it fizzles instead) but I have seen no claims that it is expected to be all that severe.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/04/07/el_nino_2014_2015_forecasts_show_it_could_grow_into_a_monster.html

The Climate Prediction Center, part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, issued its latest monthly outlook on the state of the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (or ENSO, the name for the broader phenomenon) on Thursday, with little change from last month’s update. The only differences were a slight increase in the probability that El Niño will be in place this summer, and a tentative guess at how strong that El Niño might turn out to be.

“There’s no big game changer there,” said Michelle L’Heureux, a CPC meteorologist who helps put together the outlooks.

El Niño is the part of the ENSO cycle characterized by warmer-than-average sea surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific. (Its counterpart, La Niña, is characterized by colder-than-average temperatures in the same region.)

Everyone from hurricane forecasters to drought-weary farmers in California is closely watching the El Niño updates because those temperature perturbations influence oceanic and atmospheric patterns, in turn affecting the weather in particular regions around the globe. For example, El Niños tend to tamp down on hurricane formation and growth in the Atlantic Ocean basin, while typically bringing rainy winters to California, which is sorely in need of some rain. El Niño could even push 2014 or 2015 to be a record warm year.

EDIT

http://www.climatecentral.org/news/no-el-nino-yet-still-expected-this-summer-17517

and the Colorado river system could use some help too..

mixed blessings

mother earth needs to starve off a few billion people or so and get back down to "Carrying Capacity".

So with higher temps we will see more dissolved oxygen crashes and more thermal event die-offs.

In my work I'm seeing fish sex changes happening from wastewater treatment plant effluent full of dissolved birth control pills, oxycontin, valium, xanax, lipitor, etc, etc.

Some fish are maturing a year or two earlier and much smaller trying to adapt and survive our onslaught of the ocean.

Nothing to see here...it's just EXTINCTION.

more winter kill than usual. It happens every year in shallow lakes, but this year it affected lakes that hadn't had a winter kill for many years. The drought in CA and other western states has also caused many lakes to lose lots of water, and that has killed many fish.

Those bodies of water don't exist in a vacuum.

And also a concentration gradient of die off's around the Fukishima area. I doubt it is Fukishima but I do wish our government were being a little more proactive in radiation monitoring the situation on the west coast.

The answer to your question is no. This is not the product of Fukushima.

And much of the most important research on plutonium is classified. What we know is pretty damn scary:

Really would appreciate if the United States government, such as the EPA and NOAA, were monitoring ocean radiation and sharing the data in real-time, making public what they find.

If you know of a website, I'd be much obliged for the info.

http://www.globalincidentmap.com/beta/mystery-wildlife-incidents


Thanks for the thread, babylonsister.

The author slaps out a pile of Horribles and screams BOOGA BOOGA BE AFRAID! without the least effort to create a context for understanding whether these individual die offs are, in fact out of the ordinary.

To add insult to buffoonery, a related article holds up Fox News talking head Carol Alt (a super model who has been on over 700 magazine covers) as an expert on GMOs and cites her opposition to vaccines as proof of her credibility.

Which in the process completely destroys the credibility of babylonsister as a scientifically informed citizen and http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com as a source for legitimate news.

Come on, people, we can do better than this! Once a site develops a reputation as a purveyor of ignorant woo, the stench lingers years; why do so many people tolerate this garbage?

people who're doing research and guess what, BS, er um, I mean, PSiman? SOMETHING IS HAPPENING...FACT!!! In fact, in some areas, 90% of amphibians are disappearing...BUT I guess you know better, right? ugh. Ignorance makes me itch!

Don't you DARE look at multiple events of reproductive failure, population crash and species disappearance from oceans around the world!!!!

FREEDUMB!!!

that this is not really true.

Yes fish died in Marina del Ray, but it was when they all crowded in to the harbor fleeing predators, used up the oxygen, then died.

there are NOT mass fish deaths in unprecedented numbers all over the world.

Like these freshwater fish in Fukuoka (hundreds of miles from Fukushima) that died due to high concentrations of farm chemicals in river water.

http://www.city.fukuoka.lg.jp/data/open/cnt/3/25201/1/09sakana.pdf

Here's a source of news about massive fish deaths in many parts of the world that occurred last year. Although it's in Japanese, it does contain some pictures, and a few news articles in English as well.

http://oka-jp.seesaa.net/article/371888541.html

J-Lo and what's-his-name broke up!!

And you libruls are worried about some fishes! Thankfully, the news has been covering the real crisis.