Marina del Rey Fish Kill, May 18, 2014
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Residents of "A Basin" in the upscale Los Angeles area boating community of Marina del Rey awoke May 18, 2014 to millions of dead fish floating on the water's surface and a feeding frenzy of pelicans, sea gulls and sea lions.
California: Dead Fish Fill Marina Del Rey on May 18, 2014 - Tens of thousands of dead fish wash up in Marina del Rey and officials have not said why. But about 70,000 dead fish, sting rays and other marine life washed into the suburban California harbor over the weekend. Local experts claim warmer waters caused oxygen-stifling algae to bloom. The mess was mostly cleaned up by late Sunday. Oxygen starved: The Los Angeles County Sheriff's office said the dead anchovies, stingrays and even an octopus rose to the surface at a section of the harbor Saturday evening.
‘It was like a Hitchcock movie,’ Michael Quill told KABC. ‘There were so many birds diving into the water and feeding. You could see the silver of the fish underwater, it was crazy.’
Several people speculated that warmer weather may have caused an algae bloom leading to a lack of oxygen that doomed the fish.
Benjamin Kay, a marine biologist, told the station called the inlet an ‘oxygen dead zone,’ and said that heated water ‘can't hold oxygen as normal as if it were cooler, then we get these massive fish kills.
This is a classic harbor event.’
Marine activist Matthew King, of Heal the Bay, told KNBC that ‘hot weather always has been associated with low oxygen levels in the water.’
The disturbing deaths occur almost once a year, the marine biologist argued, but at least one long-time resident in the community about four miles from Los Angeles International Airport disagreed.
‘I’ve been here for about 20 years and this is the first time I’ve seen a fish kill like this one,’ Tom Difloure told KTLA.
Workers had cleaned up most of the dead fish, and their unbearable stench by late Sunday, KNBC reported. About 175 garbage bags weighing a combined 7,000 pounds were taken away.
But the horrific smell lingered and questions remained.
Local officials were not able to be immediately reached by MailOnline, and they have not given an official cause of the kill-off.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2632893/Tens-thousands-dead-fish-wash-Marina-del-Rey-officials-not-said-why.html
Thanks FoardMedia for the news post!
Our sea life is taking a real beating with all this man made environmental pollution. We all will be effected as well by the contamination and warming of the waters within & around our oceans. Even though we are sitting on top of that planetary food chain eventually will experience first hand all those same toxins & climate effects that caused all those fish to go belly up and die. I can hear all the scientists now....We don't know why so many people just suddenly dropped dead. We know nothing........ :(
Surely the yachts contribute to pollution. Will they get the message?
Reading that they died from suffication, from being trapped in a small area. Really strange occurrence, posted it to www.feedmeister.com
I learned about this incident from the following short article that's in French.
www.meteomedia.com/nouvelles/articles/des-milliers-de-poissons-morts-a-los-angeles/27767
Translation:
Quote:
The spectacle was not only distressing to see. The smell of thousands of dead fish was also noticeable for miles around.
According to the US environment services (DoE, maybe?), the massive deaths were caused by a rapid rise in the temperature of the water in the marina.
High water temperature causes a decrease in oxygen, which explains the carnage of this large population of young fish.
According to experts, it is not a rare phenomenon and these mass deaths occur regularly.
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The article doesn't say how they could tell whether these fish were young, or not. They're clearly small, but some fish remain small their entire lives. But, that's not important anyway.
And, anyway, it sure seems that the pelicans had quite a feast.
It was also the first day the barracuda showed up in the gay bay.
that sucks