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Related: About this forumWhy Are Fish Suddenly Dying By the Millions?
http://www.nationofchange.org/news/2016/05/09/fish-suddenly-dying-millions/Over the past several months there has been an alarming number of dead fish and other sea creatures washing up all over the planet. In many places more than 30 tons of fish have washed up dead.
Chile, a place where there is a massive amount of coast with beautiful beaches, is awash with dead animals. The Smithsonian Magazine states:
As Giovanna Fleitas reports for the Agence France-Presse, the South American countrys beaches are covered with piles of dead sea creaturesand scientists are trying to figure out why.
Tales of dead animals washing up on shore are relatively common; after all, the ocean has a weird way of depositing its dead on shore. But Chiles problem is getting slightly out of hand. As Fleitas writes, recent months have not been kind to the Chilean coast, which has played host to washed-up carcasses of over 300 whales, 8,000 tons of sardines, and nearly 12 percent of the countrys annual salmon catch, to name a few.
The fish are piling up so quickly it is difficult for Chile to even make a dent in the clean up.
In Vietnam the incidents of dead fish have become so bad that soldiers are being deployed to bury them:
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Why Are Fish Suddenly Dying By the Millions? (Original Post)
eridani
May 2016
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Fairgo
(1,571 posts)1. Get used to it
All this sturm and strang over the never ending election is going to be a wistful memory soon. We will find ourselves standing knee deep in piles of collective guilt and dead animals...stinking in the heat.
Soon enough. It's too late anyway, so let us return to the game.
I believe someone was telling me that Trump was somehow the end times and Hillary was somehow not and Bernie was somehow besides the point, and the Green party was a joke. Whose turn is it?
NickB79
(19,274 posts)2. For the same reason climate scientists have been warning us about for decades
We've fucked the planet's thermostat, and with that out of whack the ocean currents, nutrient levels, plankton and coral growth, and water temps are fucked up as well.
Better get used to it, because it's not going to get any better.
Nihil
(13,508 posts)3. Temperature, acidity, deoxygenation, pollution, loss of food sources by human predation, ...
... all of the above ...