Unprecedented concentration of sea creatures near shore in California

[EE_]

Can anyone verify?

NYTimes: Unprecedented concentration of sea creatures near shore in California; Experts baffled, longtime residents astounded — Biologist: “It’s a very strange year… The $64,000 question is why?” — Similar to ‘extraordinary’ events seen recently along Canada’s Pacific coast?


New York Times, November 24, 2013: It began with the anchovies, miles and miles of them [...] in the waters of Monterey Bay. Then the sea lions came, by the thousands [...] the pelicans [...] bottlenose dolphins [in groups of 100 or more have been spotted] [...] But it was the whales that astounded even longtime residents — more than 200 humpbacks [...] and, on a recent weekend, a pod of 19 rowdy orcas [...] the water in every direction roiled with mammals [...] For almost three months, Monterey and nearby coastal areas have played host to a mammoth convocation of sea life that scientists here say is unprecedented in their memories [...] never that anyone remembers have there been this many or have they stayed so long [...] Last month, so many anchovies crowded into Santa Cruz harbor that the oxygen ran out, leading to a major die-off. Marine researchers are baffled about the reason for the anchovy explosion. [...]

Baldo Marinovic, research biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz: “It’s a very strange year [...] The $64,000 question is why this year? [...] Now [the anchovies are] all kind of concentrating on the coast.”

http://enenews.com/nytimes-unprecedented-gathering-of-sea-life-along-california-coast-experts-baffled-longtime-residents-astounded-biologist-its-a-very-strange-year-the-64000-question-is-why-v

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Can anyone verify?

NYTimes: Unprecedented concentration of sea creatures near shore in California; Experts baffled, longtime residents astounded — Biologist: “It’s a very strange year… The $64,000 question is why?” — Similar to ‘extraordinary’ events seen recently along Canada’s Pacific coast?


New York Times, November 24, 2013: It began with the anchovies, miles and miles of them [...] in the waters of Monterey Bay. Then the sea lions came, by the thousands [...] the pelicans [...] bottlenose dolphins [in groups of 100 or more have been spotted] [...] But it was the whales that astounded even longtime residents — more than 200 humpbacks [...] and, on a recent weekend, a pod of 19 rowdy orcas [...] the water in every direction roiled with mammals [...] For almost three months, Monterey and nearby coastal areas have played host to a mammoth convocation of sea life that scientists here say is unprecedented in their memories [...] never that anyone remembers have there been this many or have they stayed so long [...] Last month, so many anchovies crowded into Santa Cruz harbor that the oxygen ran out, leading to a major die-off. Marine researchers are baffled about the reason for the anchovy explosion. [...]

Baldo Marinovic, research biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz: “It’s a very strange year [...] The $64,000 question is why this year? [...] Now [the anchovies are] all kind of concentrating on the coast.”

http://enenews.com/nytimes-unprecedented-gathering-of-sea-life-along-california-coast-experts-baffled-longtime-residents-astounded-biologist-its-a-very-strange-year-the-64000-question-is-why-v

Probably trying to escape the enormous amounts of radiation that is in the water.. Would be my first guess.

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Pelosi uncrossed her legs.

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[Hitch]

Found this related article...

http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/santacruz/ci_24091445/whale-time-anchovies-bring-record-numbers-humpbacks

SANTA CRUZ -- Unprecedented numbers of whales have invaded Monterey Bay, on the hunt for epic schools of anchovies and delighting nature lovers and sightseers.

Local whale-watch pilots say pods of whales are joining herds of sea lions and flocks of birds to dine on the tiny green fish. Estimates range into the hundreds for humpback whales, though blue whales have been spotted too.

"It's the most whales that I've seen since I've been doing this, over 26 years," said marine biologist Nancy Black, of Monterey Bay Whale Watch. "There's so many humpbacks in the bay."

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Are you whale watching, skipper?

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http://www.stripersonline.com/content/type/61/id/1061570/width/505/height/525http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uBeDnut32ro/UNrisOjO__I/AAAAAAAAAKE/guGuNjAeT4o/s320/Cartoon-Fish.jpghttp://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x439/berkman64/D056152B-2432-4819-A0C8-8D7C8CD8027D-3960-00000174AECBA711.jpg

[Hitch]

Are you whale watching, skipper?

I was going to go out this week, but it didn't work out. I've got a date set in a couple of weeks though. Seeing the whales is an amazing experience.

[Serpo]

http://www.rense.com/1.imagesH/plumesplash4.jpghttp://www.rense.com/

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No videos or pictures? Propaganda?

[Serpo]

No videos or pictures? Propaganda?

http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000002568773/whales-and-anchovies.html

[Horn]

In other news there are no anchovy down in Australia.


Overfishing is removing their predators, such as anchovies

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/as-jellyfish-lap-up-warmer-conditions-our-ecosystem-is-getting-wobbly-20131123-2y2q4.html

(http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/as-jellyfish-lap-up-warmer-conditions-our-ecosystem-is-getting-wobbly-20131123-2y2q4.html)'Cookii monster' Lethal pink jellyfish rediscovered 100 YEARS after off Australian coast

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2511854/The-Cookii-monster-Huge-deadly-pink-jellyfish-discovered-100-YEARS-seen-Australian-coast.html


(http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/as-jellyfish-lap-up-warmer-conditions-our-ecosystem-is-getting-wobbly-20131123-2y2q4.html)

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(http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/as-jellyfish-lap-up-warmer-conditions-our-ecosystem-is-getting-wobbly-20131123-2y2q4.html)'Cookii monster' Lethal pink jellyfish rediscovered 100 YEARS after off Australian coast


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2511854/The-Cookii-monster-Huge-deadly-pink-jellyfish-discovered-100-YEARS-seen-Australian-coast.html (http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=53311)


(http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/as-jellyfish-lap-up-warmer-conditions-our-ecosystem-is-getting-wobbly-20131123-2y2q4.html)

wonder what this means


whose sting is so powerful that it can be felt in the water surrounding the creature.





Star fish also invading

[Horn]

wonder what this means

I guess they have overly venomous glands that seep and cling venom in area surrounding itself.

[EE_]

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t model shows West Coast of N. America to get highest level of Fukushima contamination until 2030s (VIDEO)
Published: November 26th, 2013 at 11:44 am ET
By ENENews

China-Korea Cooperation on the Development of Ocean Monitoring and Prediction System of Radionuclides: In this study we are concerned with long-term oceanic-scale dispersion of Cs 137 released from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP. [...] The information that helped us to determine the source term of radioactive materials for the numerical experiments was the concentrations of radioactive materials in the ocean reported by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). [...] using monitoring data from the web site of TEPCO near the northern and southern discharge channels of the Fukushima Daiichi NPP. [...] Assuming a total release of 9 PBq of 137 Cs from the Fukushima Daiichi NPP into the marine environment (only including liquid releases on the Pacific Ocean), the simulation is carried out up to 2041.


Top (L) Mar. 2015; Top (R) Mar. 2019; Bottom (L) Mar. 2021; Bottom (R) July 2031
(Note that the total ocean release used in the model is just 1/3 of the estimate by other researchers. It also does not take into account the daily release of 400 tons of radioactive water from the plant that’s likely been ongoing since soon after 3/11.)

Arirang News, Aug. 30, 2013: Most of the radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan is expected to follow a current and spread into the Pacific Ocean. This simulation, created by a team of Korean and Chinese researchers, shows the likely flow of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan,. as carried by the Kuroshio current. The radioactive water will merge with the strong currents of the Kuroshio and flow east. It could reach U.S. and Canadian waters in four to five years. That’s because the current eventually begins to flow towards the western waters of North America. [...] [Some] have raised concerns,. saying that continuous inspections and monitoring are required, as the exact amount of radioactive water that has leaked into the ocean is unclear.

http://enenews.com/govt-model-shows-west-coast-of-n-america-to-get-highest-level-of-fukushima-contamination-until-2030s-video

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Doug Dasher, University of Alaska Fairbanks (http://uafcornerstone.net/researcher-give-briefing-fukushima-radiation-alaska-waters/), Nov. 6, 2013 (at 10:00 in): We also worked with the North Slope Borough on the Unusual Mortality Event with the ringed seals. [...] We didn’t see any radiation levels in the seal tissues that would indicate levels of radiation that should have caused the lesions and illnesses that they saw on the seals, but we couldn’t document what the fallout pattern would have been at this time the seals were on the ice when the Fukushima plumes were passing that area. Nor to my knowledge has there been any definitive virus or otherwise defined as to what exactly affected the seals at that time.http://enenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/img_401-Nov.-16-01.39.jpg
Listen to the full briefing here (http://uafcornerstone.net/researcher-give-briefing-fukushima-radiation-alaska-waters/)
The 2011 Alaska Northern Pinniped Unusual Mortality Event (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:DLkfvnHJ83IJ:geodjango.mtri.org/nssi/media/doc/2013/Jun/US_canada_2012_Stimmelmayretal..pptx+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us), 2012: Ulcerative dermatitis is an emerging disease of unknown etiology in ice seals, not observed prior to 2011. Reports of a similar condition in ringed seals have come from Chukotka (Russia), NWT Canada, and northern Japan.


Bering Strait: Ice seal UME (http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:a8VeVsgxOi8J:www.anthc.org/chs/ces/climate/leo/upload/May14-2012_GaySheffield_AKsEAgRANT-UAF.pdf+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us), 2012: When this occurred people were describing the seals as without new hair and tired. [...] You can see the little orange bumps which have never been previously reported in seals. The red raised bumps were reported through November. [...] So you can see the bumps that are also on seal flippers [...] red and white sores that hunters have been reporting. [...] Other things that people have reported are that they can hear the seal breathing and rasping breath. Seal may be breathing very hard. Also that the seals are making shorter dive duration. The lungs may be congested. There were about twenty seal carcasses sent to specialists [...] Animals were choosing to be on shore, rather than in the water. Also an odd smell during butchering. [...] Also testing for other possible environmental causes including [...] radiation. This has been a big scare because of the power plant disaster in Japan and other sources of radiation in the environment. NSB [North Slope Borough] have pushed to have testing done. All of the seals sampled are being tested at UAF for radiation.

See also: US Gov't: Alaska island "appears to show impacts from Fukushima" -- "Significant cesium isotope signature" detected -- Scientists anticipate more marine life to be impacted as ocean plume arrives (VIDEO) (http://enenews.com/us-govt-headline-alaska-island-appears-to-show-impacts-from-fukushima-significant-cesium-isotope-signature-detected-video)