May 26, 2014 - EARTH -
The following constitutes the latest reports of unusual animal
behavior, mass die-offs, beaching and stranding of mammals, and the
appearance of rare creatures.
If you're passing though Kemah this Memorial Day weekend, you might notice a big stench due to hundreds of thousands of dead fish that have washed ashore.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says the dead fish began showing up last weekend. Now, the fish litter the shoreline, and the stench fills the air.
"It just stinks really bad," said Yesenia Compean. "You had to cover your nose when you walk by there."
Edward Hinojosa and his family spend almost every other weekend in the Kemah area.
WATCH: Dead fish wash up in Seabrook.
"Never seen nothing like that in my life," said Hinojosa.
Texas Parks and Wildlife says the shad or bait fish are likely showing up dead because of oxygen depletion.
At this time, there are no plans to investigate the fish kill any further. There's also no word on any plans to clean the fish off the shoreline. - ABC13.
A three metre decomposed whale head has washed up on a Perth beach, forcing authorities to close the area amid fears the carcass could attract sharks.
The head, believed to belong to a sperm whale, was found at Sorrento Beach on Monday morning.
The carcass is three metres long and 1.5m wide.
Department of Parks and Wildlife said the head was from a mature sperm whale and it most likely died from natural causes.
The remains are located about 800m north of the Marmion Angling and Aquatic Club.
Authorities will remove the whale head on Monday afternoon and the beach remains closed.
WATCH: Three metre long whale washes up in Perth.
- Daily Mail.
In Qatar more rain seems to fall from my air conditioning units than from the sky. Sometimes the units spit ice, and once or twice as a special treat, they've thrown a cockroach at me. In parts of the world which are wetter than Qatar, it seems that nature is just as fickle; at the beginning of the month it wasn't cockroaches, but small fish which rained down on western Sri Lanka.
Tales of creatures raining from the skies have been told throughout history. The Roman natural philosopher, Pliny the Elder, wrote about storms of fish and frogs in the first century AD. For years many people assumed that these stories were myths, or at least exaggerations, but nowadays there is no doubting the truth surrounding these tales. There are simply too many stories and too much evidence supporting them.
Certainly the story of fish falling out of the skies above Sri Lanka seems indisputable. Video taken on May 5 in the district of Chilaw shows people collecting the little fish in buckets. The video also proves that some of the little creatures were alive when they came out of the sky, as when water was added to the buckets, the fish swam around, gasping for breath.
The strange thing is that no one has ever seen creatures getting sucked up into the air, they've only ever been seen falling from the sky. How they get into the sky is therefore assumed rather than proved. It's believed that a tornado must move across a coastal region or a river, and suck the sealife out of the water. The strong winds in the upper atmosphere can then carry the creatures vast distances before they eventually fall back to earth.
Sealife falling out of the sky is more common than you might think, and it's not only limited to fish. In 2012, prawns rained down on Sri Lanka; in May 1981, frogs were seen falling from the sky in Greece; and back in 1881, hermit crabs pounded the city of Worcester in the UK.
However, one of the most mystifying downpours of sealife was in the Australia town of Lajamanu. The town is about half way between Darwin and Alice Springs, in the Tanami Desert. Despite its desert location, fish fell across the town on not one but two consecutive days in February 2010.
What makes this even more remarkable is that Lajamanu is 525km (325 miles) from the nearest river. Even more amazing is the fact that locals had already reported seeing fish raining on their house in 2004 and 1974. Despite its distance from water, Lajamanu is clearly a very fishy place!
Most things that are sucked up into the atmosphere will have to be quite light. The Sri Lankan fish were between 5 and 8cm (two to three inches) in length, approximately the same size as the Spangled Perch which fell in Australia. We can therefore stop worrying about the chance of a shark or whale falling on our heads!
Having said that, it's best not to under estimate the strength of winds within a thunderstorm cloud, something that one man, Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin, could never forget.
In 1959, Bill Rankin was flying his fighter jet above the eastern US state of North Carolina, when his plane ran into difficulties. After failing to restart his engine, he was forced to eject from his aircraft, despite the ominous looking thunderstorms which were hovering below. He hurtled towards earth, expecting the built-in barometer on his parachute to deploy after about three or four minutes' free fall.
However, after just 10 seconds he ploughed straight into the towering anvil of a cumulonimbus cloud.
As soon as Bill Rankin was inside the storm cloud, the temperature dropped dramatically. The dense grey cloud obscured the sun, while the extreme cold and wind began to inflict frostbite on his body. After what seemed like several minutes, his parachute deployed, but unfortunately the volatile storm had caused it to deploy prematurely.
The updrafts within the cloud were so strong that the pilot was thrown upwards towards the top of the cloud, before gravity dragged him downwards again. This didn't happen once, but over and over again. Lightning flashed all around him, with the thunder so loud he felt it, rather than heard it.
The air was so saturated with water, that every intake of air caused him to splutter and choke. He began to worry that he would drown. All the while, he was being pelted by hailstones, which he worried would rip his parachute to shreds.
Eventually Bill Rankin noticed that the ferocity of the conditions was easing, and he was gently drifting out of the bottom of the storm, mercifully with his parachute still intact. When he reached the ground, he calculated he had been hurtling up and down within the thunderstorm for approximately 40 minutes.
If the updrafts within a thunderstorm can keep a man airborn for 40 minutes, we can only imagine how long they could keep a small creatures in the air.
Suddenly 525km from the nearest river doesn't seem like such a large hurdle. However, the frequency of the fishy rain is still something that has me intrigued. - Gulf Times.
Britain's owl population is still suffering the consequences of last winter's wet and windy weather months later.
Staff at Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, have rescued 31 owls which had fallen from trees, compared with just two of the young birds of prey last year.
Les Stocker, Tiggywinkles founder, said: 'I am worried as last year we had just two owls in and this year we now have 31. Perhaps the storms taking out old trees might have something to do with it.
'Adult owls have been forced to seek new nest sites that aren't as secure. The babies then fall out onto the ground.
'My worry is that this is only in my catchment area. How many more are going to be lost across the country?'
Mr Stocker said that the orphans are aged between four days and two weeks and were rescued over a short period of time.
They were all found on the ground in areas such as Milton Keynes, Henley on Thames, High Wycombe, Amersham and Tring.
Suffering from starvation and dehydration they were given specialist care for the first 24 hours and are likely to be realised in the autumn, Mr Stocker added. - Daily Mail.
There are hundreds of dead fish , since yesterday morning, float on
rivers Merdaillou" we confirmed the president of the fishing company
Castelsarrasin, Patrick Domingo produces leaving the police
Castelsarrasin. Alerted
by residents of the neighborhood of Notre- Dame- d'Alem , Patrick
Domingo produces blood has a beat and discover the state of the stream. "Given
the amount of dead fish found, it is a pollution depth of the stream ,
which must be remembered flows into the Garonne."
Shared by a local resident who gathered yesterday afternoon even analysis, nets full of dead fish on his property. "In fact, I saw the first dead Thursday night and this is amplified while yesterday, assured that warned fisherman could only be heartbroken by this macabre discovery. What is more worrying is that even the so-called funds such fish studs died ... That is, if the pollution is deep."
The water police looking polluter informed of the situation by the owner of Gaul Saracen , agents of the National Office for Water and Aquatic Environments ( ONEMA) who among other Mission police water and aquatic environments, went, yesterday, on the spot to try to find the source of this pollution." They have well established the presence of a large amount of dead fish, we indicated the communication service of the prefecture. While initially the trail of a release from a paint factory Castelsarrasin was privileged agents ONEMA who ascended the river, had the certainty that the pollution was well before the sub prefecture and would be of agricultural origin."
Levies on dead fish confirmed , moreover, the investigators that they would be dead for the past two days. An element that would make the task agents ONEMA even more difficult than the pollutant causing the death has had time to dissipate." There is little chance of finding the origin of the agricultural pollution, fish being dead for too long " certifying the service of the prefecture. A checklist should now be produced by ONEMA and forwarded to the prosecutor of the Republic of Montauban, Alix Cabot Chaumeton . Not affected by this author pollution, however , it is likely that the owner of the parquet class this case without more ... One thing that was a cry of anger at the company's chairman Patrick Domingo produces fishing." This is the third pollution of the watercourse in three years, and nothing is done . This is unacceptable! All livestock studs that we form by nursery was once again destroyed by people who have no respect for nature. It's gone from an accident, I think the state too easily fatalistic in this folder. In the end, it leaves to the polluters.". - LA Depeche. [Translated]
We left at 4 am yesterday from Puno to Juli district. After
an hour and a half away, the head of Trout Project Coordinator Rural
Fondoempleo, Nancy Montesinos Condo, presented us with a bleak outlook
on Lake Highest Navigable World, thousands of dead fish and hundreds of
trout producers as in a day of burial.
Around 7 am, with the sun shining the beautiful scenery, we arrived at Sihuayro sector where we find Denis Huaman collecting dead trouts, who tearfully told us that he lost 30 thousand soles capital, then they died 3 tons of trout that were to be sold.
After spending 15 minutes, we went toward the district Pomata, where we find trout cages dragged to the lake, boats smashed, torn screens, Aymara villagers gathered in the lake trout and other dead verifying their cages about 300 meters from the lake. Similar situation was observed in the area of Faro in the same district.Here the producers had already picked up dead trout and were assembled for the damages that had each producer ; greeted with much concern and then in a couple of boats rode the shattered, empty and dead fish in water cages.
Our journey does not end there, with the president of the Federation of Truchicultores and Traders of the South Zone of Puno, Rogelio Segura Laurente, we moved to Chatuma where bleak picture was repeated. Here the president of the association in this area , Simon Pari, reports that most producers lost their capital and many banks have loans worth more than 10 billion suns amount.
Close at 11 am we completed visits to the most affected areas and our return Rogelio Segura and Nancy Montesinos, estimated that 410 trout producers of 11 associations, lost about 5 million soles for the death of 160 thousand units trout with a total weight of about 40 tons. You need to remember that it is the third time that producers are affected by the waves ; however, the authorities did not perform any action to counter the problem. Producers called for the implementation of the Fisheries Security and contingency plans of the Regional Government of Puno. - Los Andes. [Translated]
Dead fish were again caught by the population of the state, but this time the entry was made in Formoso River, south of Tocantins . According to the netizen Deyvid Brito , the photos were taken on Thursday (22) , near the pumping area of Rio Formoso project facing irrigated agriculture in the region. "I'm from Formoso do Araguaia and today , in the early afternoon, passing through the BR-242 , the right side of the highway, I realized that there were several dead fish," he says .
The scene caught by the internet is not the first . In April , fishermen Tocantinópolis, upstate, said they found evidence of a fish kill on the Tocantins River. And in February , thousands of dead fish were found near the dam of the hydroelectric plant Luís Eduardo Magalhães in Paved, 50 km from Las Palmas. In the latter , Investco, the company responsible for the plant, was fined more than U.S. $ 2.5 million for the death of fish.According to the Tocantins Nature Institute (Naturatins), the Surveillance and Coordination of Environmental Quality sent a monitoring team of Formoso do Araguaia, to inspect the area where the dead fish were found. The goal , according to the agency, is to investigate the causes of the destruction of these animals. However , the coordination of the State Naturatins thought better call for reinforcements.According to the agency, on Monday (26) a team of Gurupi also go to the site and a report is expected to leave in three days, counting from Monday. - Globo. [Translated]
"Big
Lake is half dead fish, dead fish have never seen so many." Yesterday ,
Haikou Mr Li reached the newspaper reflect hotline, Red Lake City, a
large number of dead fish. " In the end is contaminated water or what other causes ? " Lee hope
the relevant departments to thoroughly investigate the cause.
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, this reporter went to Red Lake Lake Road, saw a large dead fish floating along the lake about five -meter. Several sanitation workers are wearing masks salvage dead fish with nets . "From 7:30 in the morning to start cleaning up, clearing away forty-five have a forklift." A sanitation workers told reporters that he was responsible for sanitation Red Lake City for many years, had never seen so many dead fish .
Yesterday afternoon, the reporter of the relevant situation to Haikou Municipal Water Authority. According to the council about the person in charge of the preliminary investigation, these fish die of suffocation. He explained that in order to solve the problem of water shortage Red Lake City a few years ago, the sea began to lead the Nandu River water into the Red Lake , Red Lake water supply updated daily. However , six days ago, the water pipes burst, until 10 o'clock yesterday morning was repaired to restore water . The official said, because during the six days is not timely supply of fresh water into the lake, the water level is too low, the fish is likely to die of suffocation . The official said that the cause of fish death in a large area requires further investigation and analysis . ( Reporter Huang Ting ). - Shuichan. [Translated]
Corum Dam Sinkhole mass fish deaths occurred in Provincial Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock launched an investigation into the incident. Sinkholes mass fish deaths started Dam 4 days ago frightened citizens. Citizens saw hundreds of dead fish on the surface of the water situation Corum Province Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock told the authority. By the review team from the region of dying fish and water samples from the bottom of the dam.
Subsequently, the sample was made with the views. Food, Agriculture and Livestock Provincial Director of Elfaz have Erkan , the reservoir during the investigations said that overexploitation is seen to be blurred. Ermiş " This blur effect for the Red River, which rises one meter of the reservoir due to torrential rain and then this water with the withdrawal of the thousands of fish in the pond that they had formed was observed." said. The words have continued to say : This is perished while surviving fish in the pond. Fishing mortality is the most important move is understood to result from the mud - HT. [Translated]
A two-week old fishkill has hit 70 percent of 18,770 tilapia fish
cages in Lake Bato, affecting an estimated P52.5 million worth of
tilapia stock, the Municipal Agriculture Office said Wednesday.
Alejandro Pili, agriculture officer, in an interview, said the fishkill, which started May 7, was triggered by a sudden downpour that pushed down the mass of decaying planktons to the bottom of the lake.
A fishcage has a minimum of 40 kilos to a maximum of 100 kilos of mature tilapia stock, according to Pili, but he could not give exact figures on the value of the losses since the fishkill started.
“Only three personnel are monitoring the fishkill,” said Pili.
The cost of affected tilapia stocks, however, could be estimated at P52.5 million considering the minimum of 40 kilos per fishcage affected, which could fetch a minimum price of P100 per kilo prevailing in the public market.
The 2,810-hectare Lake Bato is surrounded by three villages in Libon, Albay and 16 villages in Bato, Camarines Sur, based on information provided by Pili. There are 205 fish cage owners registered in the municipal agriculture office.
He said the cause of the fishkill was depletion of oxygen in the water as microorganisms caused the decay of planktons that were brought down to the bottom of the lake during the sudden downpour after a long searing hot weather. - Inquirer.
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dead Fish Wash Ashore In Texas
If you're passing though Kemah this Memorial Day weekend, you might notice a big stench due to hundreds of thousands of dead fish that have washed ashore.
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department says the dead fish began showing up last weekend. Now, the fish litter the shoreline, and the stench fills the air.
"It just stinks really bad," said Yesenia Compean. "You had to cover your nose when you walk by there."
Edward Hinojosa and his family spend almost every other weekend in the Kemah area.
WATCH: Dead fish wash up in Seabrook.
"Never seen nothing like that in my life," said Hinojosa.
Texas Parks and Wildlife says the shad or bait fish are likely showing up dead because of oxygen depletion.
At this time, there are no plans to investigate the fish kill any further. There's also no word on any plans to clean the fish off the shoreline. - ABC13.
Perth Beach Closed After Rotting Whale Head Washes Up On Australian Shore
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| Washed up: A decomposed whale head was found at Perth's Sorrento Beach on Monday morning |
A three metre decomposed whale head has washed up on a Perth beach, forcing authorities to close the area amid fears the carcass could attract sharks.
The head, believed to belong to a sperm whale, was found at Sorrento Beach on Monday morning.
The carcass is three metres long and 1.5m wide.
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| Beach closed: Authorities shut the beach amid concerns the carcass could draw sharks to the area |
Department of Parks and Wildlife said the head was from a mature sperm whale and it most likely died from natural causes.
The remains are located about 800m north of the Marmion Angling and Aquatic Club.
Authorities will remove the whale head on Monday afternoon and the beach remains closed.
WATCH: Three metre long whale washes up in Perth.
- Daily Mail.
Fish Falling Out The Skies In Sri Lanka?
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| Fishy tale: The story of fish falling out of the skies above Sri Lanka seems indisputable. Videos taken in the district of Chilaw show people collecting the little fish in buckets. |
In Qatar more rain seems to fall from my air conditioning units than from the sky. Sometimes the units spit ice, and once or twice as a special treat, they've thrown a cockroach at me. In parts of the world which are wetter than Qatar, it seems that nature is just as fickle; at the beginning of the month it wasn't cockroaches, but small fish which rained down on western Sri Lanka.
Tales of creatures raining from the skies have been told throughout history. The Roman natural philosopher, Pliny the Elder, wrote about storms of fish and frogs in the first century AD. For years many people assumed that these stories were myths, or at least exaggerations, but nowadays there is no doubting the truth surrounding these tales. There are simply too many stories and too much evidence supporting them.
Certainly the story of fish falling out of the skies above Sri Lanka seems indisputable. Video taken on May 5 in the district of Chilaw shows people collecting the little fish in buckets. The video also proves that some of the little creatures were alive when they came out of the sky, as when water was added to the buckets, the fish swam around, gasping for breath.
The strange thing is that no one has ever seen creatures getting sucked up into the air, they've only ever been seen falling from the sky. How they get into the sky is therefore assumed rather than proved. It's believed that a tornado must move across a coastal region or a river, and suck the sealife out of the water. The strong winds in the upper atmosphere can then carry the creatures vast distances before they eventually fall back to earth.
Sealife falling out of the sky is more common than you might think, and it's not only limited to fish. In 2012, prawns rained down on Sri Lanka; in May 1981, frogs were seen falling from the sky in Greece; and back in 1881, hermit crabs pounded the city of Worcester in the UK.
However, one of the most mystifying downpours of sealife was in the Australia town of Lajamanu. The town is about half way between Darwin and Alice Springs, in the Tanami Desert. Despite its desert location, fish fell across the town on not one but two consecutive days in February 2010.
What makes this even more remarkable is that Lajamanu is 525km (325 miles) from the nearest river. Even more amazing is the fact that locals had already reported seeing fish raining on their house in 2004 and 1974. Despite its distance from water, Lajamanu is clearly a very fishy place!
Most things that are sucked up into the atmosphere will have to be quite light. The Sri Lankan fish were between 5 and 8cm (two to three inches) in length, approximately the same size as the Spangled Perch which fell in Australia. We can therefore stop worrying about the chance of a shark or whale falling on our heads!
Having said that, it's best not to under estimate the strength of winds within a thunderstorm cloud, something that one man, Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin, could never forget.
In 1959, Bill Rankin was flying his fighter jet above the eastern US state of North Carolina, when his plane ran into difficulties. After failing to restart his engine, he was forced to eject from his aircraft, despite the ominous looking thunderstorms which were hovering below. He hurtled towards earth, expecting the built-in barometer on his parachute to deploy after about three or four minutes' free fall.
However, after just 10 seconds he ploughed straight into the towering anvil of a cumulonimbus cloud.
As soon as Bill Rankin was inside the storm cloud, the temperature dropped dramatically. The dense grey cloud obscured the sun, while the extreme cold and wind began to inflict frostbite on his body. After what seemed like several minutes, his parachute deployed, but unfortunately the volatile storm had caused it to deploy prematurely.
The updrafts within the cloud were so strong that the pilot was thrown upwards towards the top of the cloud, before gravity dragged him downwards again. This didn't happen once, but over and over again. Lightning flashed all around him, with the thunder so loud he felt it, rather than heard it.
The air was so saturated with water, that every intake of air caused him to splutter and choke. He began to worry that he would drown. All the while, he was being pelted by hailstones, which he worried would rip his parachute to shreds.
Eventually Bill Rankin noticed that the ferocity of the conditions was easing, and he was gently drifting out of the bottom of the storm, mercifully with his parachute still intact. When he reached the ground, he calculated he had been hurtling up and down within the thunderstorm for approximately 40 minutes.
If the updrafts within a thunderstorm can keep a man airborn for 40 minutes, we can only imagine how long they could keep a small creatures in the air.
Suddenly 525km from the nearest river doesn't seem like such a large hurdle. However, the frequency of the fishy rain is still something that has me intrigued. - Gulf Times.
Huge Increases In Rescue Owl Orphans Baffles Wildlife Rescuers In Buckinghamshire, UK
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| Owl stretching time: These baby tawny owls will be
spending the Whitsun bank holiday at Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital in Buckinghamshire after being rescued by the workers there |
Britain's owl population is still suffering the consequences of last winter's wet and windy weather months later.
Staff at Tiggywinkles wildlife hospital in Haddenham, Buckinghamshire, have rescued 31 owls which had fallen from trees, compared with just two of the young birds of prey last year.
Les Stocker, Tiggywinkles founder, said: 'I am worried as last year we had just two owls in and this year we now have 31. Perhaps the storms taking out old trees might have something to do with it.
'Adult owls have been forced to seek new nest sites that aren't as secure. The babies then fall out onto the ground.
'My worry is that this is only in my catchment area. How many more are going to be lost across the country?'
Mr Stocker said that the orphans are aged between four days and two weeks and were rescued over a short period of time.
They were all found on the ground in areas such as Milton Keynes, Henley on Thames, High Wycombe, Amersham and Tring.
Suffering from starvation and dehydration they were given specialist care for the first 24 hours and are likely to be realised in the autumn, Mr Stocker added. - Daily Mail.
Hundreds Of Dead Fish Found In A Creek In Castelsarrasin, France
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| Since Thursday evening, the creek is polluted Merdaillou, hundreds of dead fish were found by rievrains. Photo DDM, Max Lagarrigue |
Shared by a local resident who gathered yesterday afternoon even analysis, nets full of dead fish on his property. "In fact, I saw the first dead Thursday night and this is amplified while yesterday, assured that warned fisherman could only be heartbroken by this macabre discovery. What is more worrying is that even the so-called funds such fish studs died ... That is, if the pollution is deep."
The water police looking polluter informed of the situation by the owner of Gaul Saracen , agents of the National Office for Water and Aquatic Environments ( ONEMA) who among other Mission police water and aquatic environments, went, yesterday, on the spot to try to find the source of this pollution." They have well established the presence of a large amount of dead fish, we indicated the communication service of the prefecture. While initially the trail of a release from a paint factory Castelsarrasin was privileged agents ONEMA who ascended the river, had the certainty that the pollution was well before the sub prefecture and would be of agricultural origin."
Levies on dead fish confirmed , moreover, the investigators that they would be dead for the past two days. An element that would make the task agents ONEMA even more difficult than the pollutant causing the death has had time to dissipate." There is little chance of finding the origin of the agricultural pollution, fish being dead for too long " certifying the service of the prefecture. A checklist should now be produced by ONEMA and forwarded to the prosecutor of the Republic of Montauban, Alix Cabot Chaumeton . Not affected by this author pollution, however , it is likely that the owner of the parquet class this case without more ... One thing that was a cry of anger at the company's chairman Patrick Domingo produces fishing." This is the third pollution of the watercourse in three years, and nothing is done . This is unacceptable! All livestock studs that we form by nursery was once again destroyed by people who have no respect for nature. It's gone from an accident, I think the state too easily fatalistic in this folder. In the end, it leaves to the polluters.". - LA Depeche. [Translated]
40 TONS Of Trout Dead In Lake Titicaca, Peru
Around 7 am, with the sun shining the beautiful scenery, we arrived at Sihuayro sector where we find Denis Huaman collecting dead trouts, who tearfully told us that he lost 30 thousand soles capital, then they died 3 tons of trout that were to be sold.
After spending 15 minutes, we went toward the district Pomata, where we find trout cages dragged to the lake, boats smashed, torn screens, Aymara villagers gathered in the lake trout and other dead verifying their cages about 300 meters from the lake. Similar situation was observed in the area of Faro in the same district.Here the producers had already picked up dead trout and were assembled for the damages that had each producer ; greeted with much concern and then in a couple of boats rode the shattered, empty and dead fish in water cages.
Our journey does not end there, with the president of the Federation of Truchicultores and Traders of the South Zone of Puno, Rogelio Segura Laurente, we moved to Chatuma where bleak picture was repeated. Here the president of the association in this area , Simon Pari, reports that most producers lost their capital and many banks have loans worth more than 10 billion suns amount.
Close at 11 am we completed visits to the most affected areas and our return Rogelio Segura and Nancy Montesinos, estimated that 410 trout producers of 11 associations, lost about 5 million soles for the death of 160 thousand units trout with a total weight of about 40 tons. You need to remember that it is the third time that producers are affected by the waves ; however, the authorities did not perform any action to counter the problem. Producers called for the implementation of the Fisheries Security and contingency plans of the Regional Government of Puno. - Los Andes. [Translated]
Fish Kill Found In A River In Tocantins, Brazil
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| New fish mortality was recorded by netizen in the southern state (Photo: Deyvid Brito / Internauta) |
Dead fish were again caught by the population of the state, but this time the entry was made in Formoso River, south of Tocantins . According to the netizen Deyvid Brito , the photos were taken on Thursday (22) , near the pumping area of Rio Formoso project facing irrigated agriculture in the region. "I'm from Formoso do Araguaia and today , in the early afternoon, passing through the BR-242 , the right side of the highway, I realized that there were several dead fish," he says .
The scene caught by the internet is not the first . In April , fishermen Tocantinópolis, upstate, said they found evidence of a fish kill on the Tocantins River. And in February , thousands of dead fish were found near the dam of the hydroelectric plant Luís Eduardo Magalhães in Paved, 50 km from Las Palmas. In the latter , Investco, the company responsible for the plant, was fined more than U.S. $ 2.5 million for the death of fish.According to the Tocantins Nature Institute (Naturatins), the Surveillance and Coordination of Environmental Quality sent a monitoring team of Formoso do Araguaia, to inspect the area where the dead fish were found. The goal , according to the agency, is to investigate the causes of the destruction of these animals. However , the coordination of the State Naturatins thought better call for reinforcements.According to the agency, on Monday (26) a team of Gurupi also go to the site and a report is expected to leave in three days, counting from Monday. - Globo. [Translated]
Large Amount Of Dead Fish Appear In A Lake In Haikou, China
4 o'clock yesterday afternoon, this reporter went to Red Lake Lake Road, saw a large dead fish floating along the lake about five -meter. Several sanitation workers are wearing masks salvage dead fish with nets . "From 7:30 in the morning to start cleaning up, clearing away forty-five have a forklift." A sanitation workers told reporters that he was responsible for sanitation Red Lake City for many years, had never seen so many dead fish .
Yesterday afternoon, the reporter of the relevant situation to Haikou Municipal Water Authority. According to the council about the person in charge of the preliminary investigation, these fish die of suffocation. He explained that in order to solve the problem of water shortage Red Lake City a few years ago, the sea began to lead the Nandu River water into the Red Lake , Red Lake water supply updated daily. However , six days ago, the water pipes burst, until 10 o'clock yesterday morning was repaired to restore water . The official said, because during the six days is not timely supply of fresh water into the lake, the water level is too low, the fish is likely to die of suffocation . The official said that the cause of fish death in a large area requires further investigation and analysis . ( Reporter Huang Ting ). - Shuichan. [Translated]
Hundreds Of Dead Trout Found Dead In A River "Is One Of The Biggest Ecological Disasters" In Portugal
The river should be suffered yesterday in Monforte one of the biggest ecological disaster in living memory at least among fishing enthusiasts, who believe that are several hundred trout and the fish found dead between Freixo place where the treatment plant is waters of the City, and the setting of A Barxa, and near the recreation area Ribasaltas. - El Progreso. [Translated]
Mass Die Off Of Fish In A Dam In Corum Province, Turkey
Corum Dam Sinkhole mass fish deaths occurred in Provincial Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock launched an investigation into the incident. Sinkholes mass fish deaths started Dam 4 days ago frightened citizens. Citizens saw hundreds of dead fish on the surface of the water situation Corum Province Directorate of Food, Agriculture and Livestock told the authority. By the review team from the region of dying fish and water samples from the bottom of the dam.
Subsequently, the sample was made with the views. Food, Agriculture and Livestock Provincial Director of Elfaz have Erkan , the reservoir during the investigations said that overexploitation is seen to be blurred. Ermiş " This blur effect for the Red River, which rises one meter of the reservoir due to torrential rain and then this water with the withdrawal of the thousands of fish in the pond that they had formed was observed." said. The words have continued to say : This is perished while surviving fish in the pond. Fishing mortality is the most important move is understood to result from the mud - HT. [Translated]
Hundreds Of TONS Of Fish Die-Off In Fish Cages In Lake Bato, Philippines
Alejandro Pili, agriculture officer, in an interview, said the fishkill, which started May 7, was triggered by a sudden downpour that pushed down the mass of decaying planktons to the bottom of the lake.
A fishcage has a minimum of 40 kilos to a maximum of 100 kilos of mature tilapia stock, according to Pili, but he could not give exact figures on the value of the losses since the fishkill started.
“Only three personnel are monitoring the fishkill,” said Pili.
The cost of affected tilapia stocks, however, could be estimated at P52.5 million considering the minimum of 40 kilos per fishcage affected, which could fetch a minimum price of P100 per kilo prevailing in the public market.
The 2,810-hectare Lake Bato is surrounded by three villages in Libon, Albay and 16 villages in Bato, Camarines Sur, based on information provided by Pili. There are 205 fish cage owners registered in the municipal agriculture office.
He said the cause of the fishkill was depletion of oxygen in the water as microorganisms caused the decay of planktons that were brought down to the bottom of the lake during the sudden downpour after a long searing hot weather. - Inquirer.
