Over 200 dead dolphins found in Peru.

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Over 200 dolphins dead in northern Peru

This week more than 200 dolphins were found dead along a 106-kilometer stretch at the beaches of Lambayeque.

Authorities have not yet been able to determine the cause of the deaths.

According to El Comercio, Edward Barriga, head of Peru’s Ocean Institute (Imarpe) in Lambayeque, ordered samples be sent to Lima, for further analysis.

“Soon we will announce the root causes," Barriga said.

Barriga said he had also found considerable quantities of dead anchovies on the beaches between the district of San jose and Palo Parado, in Morrope.

Jorge Torres Cabrejos, head of the Lambayeque’s Association of Maritime Growers, said the dolphins might have eaten the dead anchovies, who had died from decomposing plankton, caused by heavy pollution.

According to El Comercio, Torres denied that local fisherman were to blame for the dolphins’ deaths.

Last month Imarpe investigated the death of several dolphins and sea lions in the beaches of Piura.

Local media said the deaths could have been the result of oil spills in the area.

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-1531-Over-200-dolphins-dead-in-northern-Peru/

This incident occurred in roughly the same time period that over 100 dead or dying dolphins were found at Cape Cod (on another ocean shore in a different hemisphere). Just what the hell is going on!?

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/02/06/10331137-cape-cod-dolphin-beachings-rise-to-129-more-expected

[Laura]

I suspect outgassing of some sort: methane or some other poisonous gas, which would mean the earth's crust is opening and shifting even more.  Could also be underwater volcanic eruptions with associate gas venting and heating.  All that would mean more evaporation then precipitation either in the form of floods or heavy snow, depending on where it goes.

[Regulattor]

More dead dolphins, this time from Southern Adriatic.

http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/General_News/2012-02-06/24897/Series_of_dolphin_deaths_puzzles_experts

Although it may be cold related, last two weeks the weather there is going nuts! There are even reports of dead fish being wash ashore more to the North on the beaches of Pag island and they say it's because of cold water and strong winds.

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I wonder if the following report of a mass death of beached seabirds has the same cause as the dolphin deaths? In the accompanying video clip an expert claims that this normal for migrating species. The trouble with this attempt at an explanation is that it's too early for Spring migration and the numbers observed do seem a bit exceptional. I tend to believe the eye witness account of the long term residence - that this many deaths is not usual from his experience. Also telling was the fact that large amounts of feathers had also washed up on the beach, indicating even more deaths far out to sea, out of sight.

 Note also man-made pollution was not thought be implicated in the die off.

Why are there beached birds on our coast?


ATLANTIC BEACH, Fla. -- Gary Anderson has made a career out of studying the shoreline. The coastal geologist turned Jacksonville Waterways commissioner has seen many changes along Florida's northeast coast, but he's never seen so many beached birds. 

"There were dead birds all over the place and what really gave me a clue was there were feathers there were thousands of thousands of feathers and that's unusual," said Anderson.

The commissioner found a total of 12 pelicans and gannets on Friday, and a friend found more than 40 just between Hannah Park and Ponte Vedra Beach.

Action news took those concerns to Florida Fish and Wildlife, who said the dead birds are nothing out of the ordinary.

"This occurs every year during migration time where some of these immature birds can't handle the stress of the long migration and some of them die on the way down basically," said Kevin Baxter, spokesperson for Fish and Wildlife.

But that wasn't enough for beach buff, Anderson.

"I'm a little skeptical because I spend a lot of time on this beach," said Anderson.

He says something stinks.

"One of the other witnesses smelled petroleum," said he said. "And on Friday the foam was brown, today it's white."

Fish and Wildlife also told Action News they studied two carcasses from our coast and they are sticking to their migration theory.

"There were no signs of any kind of contamination," said Baxter. "They conducted a necropsy which is a death examination of the birds and didn't find any evidence of that."

Fish and Wildlife promises, as they get more calls, they will continue to investigate. To report a dead or injured bird, visit myfwc.com/bird.

Video clip

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/content/topstories/story/Why-are-there-beached-birds-on-our-coast/oxsRceVgY0ulcQvYfvgTIA.cspx

Another unusual report -

Beached whale first of its kind in New Zealand

The True's beaked whale (skeleton seen above) is one of the rarest whale species.
Wednesday Feb 8, 2012 (Laura Mills). A rare species of whale found washed up on a Haast beach is the first recorded in New Zealand.

A Haast resident found the True’s beaked whale carcass near the mouth of Waiatoto River in November.

It has only now been confirmed as the first of its kind in the country.

The skeleton, including a foetus, will now go to Te Papa in Wellington, where it will be available to scientists.

Department of Conservation West Coast marine specialist Don Neale spent the weekend extracting the bones after the 5m-long, 1.4 tonne carcass, which had been left to rot on the beach.

Not a lot is known about the species, but it has populations in the southern Indian Ocean and the north Atlantic.

“This one would be an extension of that southern Indian Ocean one. But is it a straggler, or do they quite often come here? We don’t know,” Mr Neale said.

“It’s incredible to think that we have a huge mammal like this in New Zealand that until now we didn’t even know lived here.”

Mr Neale said it might be the same whale that briefly stranded alive on the beach at nearby Jackson Bay the day before this one was found dead.

It was identified using genetic analysis at Auckland University, and there was no obvious reason why it died.

True’s beaked whales mostly feed on squid, but also eat fish, using in-built sonar to find their prey in the dark waters of the deep ocean. Before it died, it was probably feeding in the deep underwater canyons close to the South Westland coast.

The species is named after Frederick True, a curator at the Smithsonian in the United States. One of the rarest whales in the world, no population estimates are available.

Until now, True’s beaked whales were known only from about 20 carcasses and a handful of live sightings, in the southern Indian Ocean and the north Atlantic Ocean.

http://whalesandmarinefauna.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/beached-whale-first-of-its-kind-in-new-zealand/

edit - forgot to mention that the bird species involved, pelicans and gannets feed by catching fish underwater - which I think maybe relevant here.

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3,000 Dolphins Found Dead on the Coast of Peru

http://www.pej.org/html/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=9452&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

During the 3 last months. I wonder how many dead in total. Saddens me a lot.

[Laura]

This is getting to be terrible.  Dolphins, whales, turtles, polar bears, seals, fish and birds of all kinds.  Do those madmen running things not realize that what kills our co-inhabitants of this planet can kill all people too?

Geezus, just imagine a few psychopaths on an island: they would destroy everything and blame fate for starving to death.

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150 dead dolphins found over the last few weeks off Crimea coast.  Google translation -

http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&ie=UTF-8&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fpodrobnosti.ua%2Fpodrobnosti%2F2012%2F05%2F16%2F836835.html

With video footage.

[lake_george]

Possible causes for these deaths may include, but are not limited to:

Water from Fukushima - contaminated with radiation, even just water from the tsunami runoff contaminated with 'just regular' poisons;

then there is the Corexit and other poisons 'sprayed' to disperse (hide!) oil from oil spills, and also the oil from the oil spills! but the Corexit is far more deadly - and there are kinds of bacteria that will eat the oil - go figure why they need to spray the Corexit - it HIDES the oil at the seafloor so they don't have to clean it up;

then there is the underwater >noise< created by submarines and other various source  for 'military purposes' and perhaps also the noise from that is part of the process of  exploring for more oil;

then there is that big floating island of plastic garbage in the Pacific;

then there is that the larger animals can't help but be starved anyway as the food chain is being poisoned from the bottom up by this radiation from Fukushima in the air and water, + the other culprits listed above.

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Number of dead cetacians now up to 300 in the Black Sea and Crimea region

Black Sea Ecologists Alarmed By Dolphin Die-Off


Hardly a day goes by in Sochi, Russia's picturesque Black Sea resort, without a dead dolphin washing up on the beach.

With the tourist season just kicking off, the unexplained deaths have yet to draw much scrutiny.
 
But environmentalists are increasingly alarmed. The dolphin carcasses are also turning into a real holiday spoiler for vacationers drawn to the region's scenic beaches and pristine vistas.
 
Russian tourist Aida Kobzh was shocked to discover a group of dead dolphins last week at her local beach in Sochi.
 
"Everyone stood there and stared at the dead little dolphins lying belly up. Poor creatures!" Kobzh says. "There were some on the beach but also in the water, they were floating there, dead."
 
Little Official Interest
 
The dolphins started washing up along Russia's Black Sea coast several weeks ago. They have also been spotted on Ukrainian shores.
 
Environmentalists are now talking about the biggest dolphin die-off to date in the region, with an estimated 300 animals dead so far.
 
Local authorities have made no serious attempt to investigate the deaths, saying the animals are too decayed by the time they reach the shore for laboratory tests to be conducted.
 
Officials have blamed poachers and fishing nets. They say the unusually cold winter has driven dolphins from the Sea of Azov to the warmer Black Sea.
 
Some experts, like local zoologist Konstantin Andramonov, point to a possible killer virus.
 
"The death toll is constantly growing, unfortunately," Andramonov says. "We are now witnessing the same in Ukraine. There is a hypothesis that we are dealing with an infectious disease that occurs roughly every 20 years."
 
Ecosystem In Danger
 
Most experts, however, believe the real culprit is ever-increasing pollution in the Black Sea region.
 
Valery Brinikh, who works for the prominent environmental group Ecological Watch, says the scale of the dolphin deaths belies official accounts faulting poachers and fishing nets.
 
"This happens every year in Sochi -- sometimes there are more deaths, sometimes fewer," Brinikh says. "But the scale this time suggests unnatural causes, probably sea pollution or a loss of orientation of the dolphins, which can also be linked to pollution."
 
Environmentalists say pollution levels have risen dramatically around Sochi since the city was selected to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games.
 
They have long warned that unbridled construction is inflicting irreparable ecological damage to Sochi's unique ecosystem.
 
Olga Noskovets, a local ecologist, suspects that the authorities are perfectly aware it is pollution that is killing the dolphins.
 
She says pollution levels are highest in areas close to the Olympic construction sites that dot Sochi and its outskirts.
 
Black-And-Blue Sea
 
According to Noskovets, the most affected area is Sochi's Lazarevsky district, where tourist Aida Kobzh recently spotted the dead dolphins.
 
"The biggest hazard is posed by a river that runs through the Lazarevsky district, an area with a high concentration of sanatoriums, including for children," says Noskovets. "The infamous Olympic dump lies nearby, and it has no waste-treatment system. This small mountain stream, which used to have fish, is now cloudy, brown and foamy. It collects waste and carries it to beaches that once counted among the most beautiful in the area."
 
Noskovets says the dolphin die-off should act as a wake-up call. She says the authorities must urgently sound the alarm and warn visitors about the health hazards of bathing on certain Black Sea beaches before the tourist season reaches its peak.
 
"If sea creatures that are adapted to life in the sea react this way, what will the consequences be for humans?" Noskovets says. "Every year, numerous people suffer poisoning incidents after bathing in the sea, and these are always blamed on food poisoning. It is a nasty lie from our authorities, who are afraid of telling the truth -- that the Black Sea is simply being poisoned."

http://www.rferl.org/content/black-sea-ecologists-alarmed-by-dolphin-deaths/24591773.html

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The world wide mass deaths of animal and birds does seem relentless at the moment. Up next homo sapiens?

Animapocalypse Continues in Peru - Dolphins, Fish, Pelicans Found Dead

It would seem the animapocalypse in Peru has continued into 2013.

Throughout January various animals have been washing up along the shores of Peru’s northern coast.

According to the Sea Institute of Peru 12 dolphins, 35 sea lions, and 13 pelicans have been found dead along the shores of San Jose, Lambayeque.

It appears that many of the dolphins found had died several weeks prior to their discovery, but the government says it have confirmed all the animals died from natural causes.

The pelicans specifically, appeared to have died from starvation, as the anchovy population has dropped significantly due to the increase in water temperature.

In 2012, the Peruvian government also claimed “natural causes” were responsible for the deaths of about 900 dolphins that had washed up on its shores. In May, Peruvian authorities said warm waters off its coast were to blame for the deaths of more than 5,000 marine birds.

Conservationists not within the government however, have continued to question the government’s reasoning, saying “natural causes” does not explain everything.

_http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/animapocalypse-continues-in-peru-dolphins-fish-pelicans-found-dead/21287/