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WHAT IS REMOVING OXYGEN FROM THE WATERS? Chemtrail chemicals? Or is someone spraying to remove every living thing from this planet? When you wipe out huge pieces of the 'food chain', you are in effect giving ALL living species on this planet a 'death sentence'. Please don't tell me this is so somebody can 'patent' fish and sell us that part of our diet as well. (They have recently requested a patent on pigs and we know they are attempting to make owning natural seeds a crime) Cause there won't be anybody left to buy the products.
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http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/news/080405_local_fish.html

From the sky, a sea of white is covering the mouth of the Colorado River. Upon closer look, you´ll see dead fish millions of them.
"Unbelievable if you haven´t seen it before," said Matagorda County Commissioner George Deshotel.

The stunning images of devastation run for miles. It´s one of the largest fish kills people in the town of Matagorda have seen in years.

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11 MILLION SALMON MISSING

Warm waters blamed for disappearance of sockeye
CTV.ca News Staff

In the few places on the B.C. coast where sockeye salmon fishing is allowed, boats are coming back to port empty or near-empty this summer, as the annual sockeye run has so far failed to materialize.

The Skeena sockeye run, initially forecast to be 1.2 million fish, has been about half that number. There are also low numbers on the Fraser and Nass Rivers.

On the Fraser River, 11 million salmon were predicted to return, but the peak last weekend saw about 100,000 fish.

Because of the crisis, the commercial fishery has yet to open and the native fishery has been restricted.

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Pennsylvania

Fish kill merits top priority
Tuesday, August 09, 2005

It should be unsettling to more than just anglers that unusual numbers of young smallmouth bass are being found dead in sections of the Susquehanna and Juniata rivers.

Specifically, biologists and anglers are finding large numbers of dying or dead fish with skin lesions downstream from Lewistown in the Juniata and downstream from Sunbury to below Harrisburg in the Susquehanna.

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission has attributed the problem to a bacterial infection, but the source of that bacteria remains a mystery. Fortunately, the commission says the bacteria -- columnaris, which is caused by environmental or nutritional factors -- posts no threat to humans.

But it´s nevertheless troubling that dead fish are turning up on some of the best bass fishing waters in the United States, and waters used for various recreational purposes and in some cases drinking water in our backyard. And while the smallmouth are the afflicted at the moment, the bacteria can be picked up by other freshwater species; they have been found in smaller numbers on white suckers in the same waters.
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Louisiana
Environmentalists hope to find cause of massive fish kill in Bayou Lacombe
03:56 PM CDT on Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Dave McNamara / WWL-TV Reporter

Environmentalists are looking into what´s causing thousands of dead fish to turn up on the Northshore in Bayou Lacombe.

The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation agreed with Glockner that a fish kill of this size, involving these types of fish, is usually an indicator that something is wrong.

The dead fish, mostly shad and pogies, began popping up last week on both sides of the Bayou, as far as three-quarters of a mile from the bayou basin, according to local fisherman and restaurateur Cliff Glockner.

I seen about a hundred, hundred-fifty thousand right here on the top of the water. All stressed, getting ready to die, Glockner said. This is the fourth fish kill in a week and a half. It started last Monday and it went for about two days up the bayou. But as the water fell at night, it progressively moved down to a stretch about half-a-mile long.�
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South Dakota
Posted on Tue, Aug. 09, 2005

Fisheries officials looking into dead white bass

Associated Press

PIERRE, S.D. - State fisheries officials have been investigating unusually high numbers of dead white bass washing ashore on Lake Oahe during the past week.

Robert Hanten, a fisheries biologist with the Game, Fish and Parks Department, said white bass die-offs are unfortunate and messy, but not unprecedented in South Dakota. They´ve happened in the past on Lake Sharpe and Lake Francis Case, as well as in other parts of the country, he said.

"It is not uncommon to see a few dead fish on a normal day on the water," Hanten said in a release. "But when we get reports of hundreds of dead fish, an investigation is necessary."
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Texas

Millions of fish dead near Matagorda
Associated Press
MATAGORDA - Millions of small fish have died in the waters of Matagorda Harbor, the Intracoastal Canal and Colorado River in what some in this small coastal community are calling one of the largest local fish kills in recent years.

Recent hot, windless weather has increased water temperatures and lowered the amount of oxygen water can hold, said John O´Connell, Matagorda County marine extension agent.

Sunlight helps microscopic algae in the water produce oxygen. Menhaden, a small bait fish, feed off of the algae and are drawn to the waters in large numbers, O´Connell said.
The demand for oxygen has exceeded production, and the fish have died and risen to the surface, said Willie Younger, a marine education specialist with the Texas A&M Marine Advisory Service.
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Fish kills are a natural process but rarely reach the magnitude seen this week, Younger said.
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Florida

Gulf of Mexico mystery
Wednesday, August 10, 2005

About 20 dead sea turtles have washed ashore in Pinellas County in the past three days, an extremely high number that has doctors and scientists puzzled.

Dive instructor Michael Miller took underwater video to try to figure out the mystery.

"Right now, anywhere we go from shore to 20 miles offshore, from Sarasota to Tarpon Springs, we can´t find a single creature alive on the bottom right now," said Miller.

Miller says he´s never seen such death and devastation under water in his 20 years of diving.

"All the coral, all the sponges, all the crabs, not a single living thing, all the star fish, the brittle stars, everything´s dead," said Miller.
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Florida

Red Tide´s Gone; Dead Fish Aren´t

By DAVID SOMMER
Published: Aug 9, 2005

CLEARWATER - When marine researchers issued a favorable red tide update Friday, they forgot to tell the fish.

All weekend, dead fish continued to wash up on some area beaches, local officials said.

``Red tide is a living organism. ... What you are seeing today could be totally different from what was reported last week, said Jeremy Lake, spokesman for the state Fish and Wildlife Research Institute in St. Petersburg.
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Minnesota

Heat kills thousands of fish on Pebble Lake
By Brandon Stahl

Alan Lunde was boating on Pebble Lake with a colleague on Saturday, July 16, when the two noticed at least two dozen dead fish floating on the water. The next day, Alan and his wife, Carolyn, went out and saw anywhere from 500 to 800.

By Monday night, the residents along the north and east shore of the lake were dealing with a massive fish kill, having to clean up anywhere from 2,000 to 3,000 fish.

"It´s never happened before, and it´s never happened since," said Steve Rufer, who has lived on the lake since 2003 and from 1991 to 1998.

Thermal stress

The lake´s tullibee, a species of cold water fish related to trout and salmon, died off from the warm water temperatures, according to Arlin Schalekamp, the DNR´s Area Fisheries Manager.

Schalekamp said the tullibee need to swim in colder water with higher oxygen levels, but the summer´s hot temperatures depleted the oxygen levels, forcing the fish to swim toward the surface where they died from thermal stress.

"It´s fairly common," Schalekamp said. "We see it just about every year where we have one or two lakes that have these tullibee."
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Illinois

Fish at VanWinkle Lake dying from lack of oxygen, other woes
By LARRY ESKRIDGE/of the Daily Ledger

Wednesday, August 10, 2005 11:25 AM CDT

Approximately two weeks ago local residents reported a large number of dead fish floating on Van Winkle Lake near Wallace Park.

Rob Hilsbeck of the Illinois Department of Natural Resources said the fish kill was caused by the low oxygen content of the water, brought on by the low water level and the high temperatures. He added that algae blooms also contributed to the problem, and that the lake was not a good habitat because of the high siltation.
Hilsbeck went on to say that the situation was aggravated by the drought conditions. He noted that the heat made a situation where the water could not hold oxygen, and that it could be made worse by a sudden cold front or a brief rain.

Hilsbeck also said the larger fish, because they needed more oxygen, were the first to die.
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Oregon

Dead zone may be developing on Oregon coast
August 8, 2005

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Starving birds and fewer fish along the Oregon coast are a warning sign that another seasonal “dead zone� may be developing as a result of global warming, biologists say.

No one is sure why it happened. But leading scientists at Oregon State University blame steadily rising sea temperatures, which increasingly appears tied to human-caused global warming.

The oceans are generally warming up, and there are all sorts of signs that something strange is afoot,� said Ronald Neilson, an Oregon State professor and U.S. Forest Service researcher who specializes in climate. Its not new to have change happen. Its how suddenly its happening.

A record 181 adult murres turned up dead on a 4.6-mile stretch of beach just south of Newport in July, more than in any other month in the 28 years teams have surveyed the stretch.

Brandts cormorants, another fishing bird, have washed up dead at rates 50 to 80 times those of previous years, said Julia Parrish, a University of Washington professor who leads a coastal bird survey.

“It’s just awful, said William Sydeman, director of marine ecology for the Point Reyes Bird Observatory in California. “It’s just as bad as we’ve ever seen it.�
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South Wales

Posted on: Monday, 8 August 2005, 06:00 CDT

Fish Are Killed By Chemical in River

An investigation has been launched after thousands of fish were wiped out by a mystery pollutant - for the second time in a year. More than 20,000 fish, mostly young salmon and trout, were found dead in the River Ebbw, in the Crumlin area this week.

Environment Agency officers were alerted on Monday about a mystery chemical being discharged into the river from a drainage culvert.

The pollutant is believed to be some form of detergent which left other wildlife and invertebrates unharmed.

By the time it had reached Cwmcarn it had lost its power to kill, but had already affected four miles of the river.

John Gregory, the agency´s environment manager is appealing for information and help in tracing the pollution source.

He said: ´It´s heartbreaking to see so many fish killed for the second time in a year. We had a similar pollution last August, but were unable to find the source, even with the help of the local authority in searching the drainage system.´
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Indonesia

Bekasi seeks cause of dead fish
City News - August 10, 2005

BEKASI: The Bekasi Council urged the Environmental Management Agency to investigate the death of thousands of fish in Kali Bekasi river since Sunday, suspecting untreated industrial waste had polluted the river.

"The agency has to move fast," councillor Heri Koswara was quoted as saying by Antara on Tuesday, "don´t wait until one resident becomes a victim of water pollution."

Councillor Muhammad Hasyim Affandi from the council´s Commission B that oversees the environment said that they would ask the agency to submit a report on the cause of the phenomenon.

"It first happened a few months ago at every low tide, we could easily pick up thousands of dying fish in the river," said Muksin, 45, a resident of Margahayu subdistrict. "I don´t know what caused it (the death), but they are less tasty compared to fresh ones."
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Indonesia

Many fish die of asphyxiation
City News - August 09, 2005

Damar Harsanto, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta

Fish in the waters around Gosong Sekati, Karya, Panggan and Pramuka islets in the Thousand Islands regency have died due to asphyxiation, according to an Environmental Management Agency statement on Monday.

Kakap (Lates calcarifer), Kerapu (Epinephalus tauvina), Pari (Elasmobranchii) and Sembilang (Plotosus sp) fish were among the species found dead on Friday around the four islets.

"The phenomenon was likely caused by a drop in oxygen content in the water due to a rapid proliferation of the phytoplankton population, which absorbs oxygen in the water," the agency´s head Kosasih Wirahadikusumah told The Jakarta Post.

Kosasih said his agency had taken samples of the water from the locations and sent them to the laboratory of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences´s (LIPI) oceanography for examination.

"Hopefully, the laboratory could come up with the result this week and we could know exactly what causes the deaths of the fish," he said.

Head of the Thousand Islands Marine Park Sumarto said that it had been occurring since Friday and was the third major case of its kind this year.

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Sea ´dead zones´ threaten fish

BBC News Online environment correspondent in Jeju, Korea

Sea areas starved of oxygen will soon damage fish stocks even more than unsustainable catches, the United Nations believes. The UN Environment Programme says excessive nutrients, mainly nitrogen from human activities, are causing these "dead zones" by stimulating huge growths of algae.

Since the 1960s the number of oxygen-starved areas has doubled every decade, as human nitrogen production has outstripped natural sources. Unep made its remarks as it launched its Global Environment Outlook Year Book 2003.

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By DYLAN DARLING

Thousands of dead fish were found belly up on the Klamath River southwest of Klamath Falls this week, the apparent victims of poor water conditions brought on by hot weather.

Among the dead are some young endangered sucker fish, but most of the fish are tui chubs and fathead minnows, and is no reason for alarm, federal officials said. The fish die-off was reported Tuesday morning by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation scientists, who said it occurred Monday evening.

Dead fish were found on a seven-mile stretch of the Klamath River below Lake Ewauna and in irrigation diversions on the river. The number of dead suckers were estimated to be "several thousand" suckers, said Rae Olsen, Bureau spokeswoman.

"Thousands is the only thing I can tell you," she said.

The dead suckers were found mostly near the Lost River Diversion Channel just south of Klamath Falls, said Roger Smith, fisheries biologist for the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Afternoon highs have hovered in the 90s since last Thursday.

"And the day before that it was 86," Smith said.

The warm air makes for hot water. Water in the river was measured at 82 degrees at 4 p.m. Monday.

Suckers can tolerate 75-degree water for quite some time, but it still harms their health, he said.

Fish die-offs are common summertime occurrences that happen because of a combination of low water and high temperatures. When temperatures go up, the water quality goes down because oxygen levels are lowered by decaying algae, Smith said.

Although the warm water and algae blooms can prove fatal for suckers - especially those only about a year old - and tui chubs and fathead minnows, trout usually avoid the danger by swimming to cool pockets of water and away from the algae.

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ASSOCIATED PRESS

LOWVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - Three million gallons of liquid manure spilled from a dairy farm and into a nearby river, creating a smelly flow that was blamed for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of fish.

The toxic tide had traveled some 20 miles on the Black River by Friday and was expected to flow past Watertown, a city of 25,000, which shut off its water intake.

Farmers in this dairy-intensive county were warned not to let their cows drink from the river, and emergency officials were trying Friday to flush out the contamination by increasing the flow from the Beaver River, which feeds the Black River.

The process could take a week or two, said Jim Martin, Lewis County´s emergency manager.

"If we get some good rain over the weekend, it´s going to help a lot. If it stays hot and dry, it´s going to stay awhile," Martin said.

The manure spilled from a lagoon at the large Marks Farms late Wednesday or early Thursday when an earthen wall blew out, sending the liquid into a drainage ditch and then into the river, Martin said.

State officials estimated the manure had killed hundreds of thousands of fish, including perch, bass, catfish, shiners and walleye.

The state health department was monitoring the manure. No human illnesses had been reported, Martin said.

No charges had been filed against the farm owners as of Friday morning, he said.

The farm, about 5 miles south of Lowville, is owned by David and Jacquelyn Peck and William Marks, according to federal records. A woman answering the phone there Friday said the owners were not speaking to reporters.

Steven Fuller, who owns a riverside restaurant in Lowville, said his restaurant had many cancellations Thursday. "The smell is your typical dairy air, you might say," he said.

Watertown can draw from a 60 million gallon reserve supply of water through the weekend, if need be, said Brian Gaffney, the city´s treatment plant operator.

The spill was expected to reach Lake Ontario in coming days.

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Fourth Fish Kill Investigated in the Region
8/15/2005

Usually a breeze during a hot summer day is a welcomed treat. But over the last several days, The wind has been blowing the scent of dead fish into a Metairie neighborhood. It's all the result of a fish kill in the 17th street canal.

In a canal best known as a border between Orleans and Jefferson Parishes, silver specks glisten in the water. But take a closer look, and you´ll see the sun shining on dead fish.

In Bucktown workers from the department of environmental quality used a water quality probe to measure temperature and oxygen levels.

"We had identical conditions in Bayou Lacombe last week with the fish kill that occurred there," said John Calvin of the Department of Environmental Quality.

The cause: nothing toxic, according to DEQ. Just high heat and low tide, which means low to no oxygen in the water.

"If there´s no oxygen for them, then they´re in trouble. They´re starved for oxygen and they perished," Jeff Dauzat of the Department of Environmental Quality.

According to DEQ, this is the fourth fish kill in the region.

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Cause of Carmel fish kill probed

By MICHAEL RISINIT
THE JOURNAL NEWS
(Original publication: August 16, 2005)

CARMEL”What killed hundreds of fish over the weekend in the Croton Falls Reservoir remained a mystery yesterday.

"Never in my life have I seen anything like it," said Morgan Seymour Jr., 76, a lifelong Carmel resident and avid outdoorsman.

Seymour was describing the 1,000 dead fish” sawbellies, white perch and yellow perch — he saw at the Croton Falls Reservoir floating in the water or washed up on the shore. A retired railroad engineer, he was driving down Stoneleigh Avenue Friday evening when he noticed a mob of gulls and cormorants diving into the water near where the road crosses the reservoir.

"I said to myself, ´That´s unusual,´ " Seymour said. "So I turned the car around and went back for a look."

The reservoir is part of New York City´s water supply, which delivers drinking water to 9 million people, including part of Putnam County and most of Westchester. City and state environmental authorities yesterday were looking for the cause of the fish kill.

"For now, we just don´t know," said Ian Michaels, a spokesman for the city´s Department of Environmental Protection. "We had people investigating over the weekend and today."

The DEP oversees the water supply. Ongoing dam construction has lowered the water level by about 50 feet, squeezing the Croton Reservoir´s fish into smaller and shallower areas than usual.

Michaels said researchers were testing for various pollutants and looking to see if the construction upstream at the Middle Branch Reservoir released any contaminants into the water. They were also monitoring the reservoir´s content of dissolved oxygen” what fish need to survive.

"It seems whatever the condition was has subsided. We´re going to keep trying to figure it out." he said.

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High temperatures, too little oxygen cited as probable causes for thousands of dead fish found floating in East Rockaway

BY ERIK GERMAN AND SID CASSESE
STAFF WRITERS

August 18, 2005

Several thousand dead fish were found floating yesterday in East Rockaway in a local waterway known as Mill River, a serious die-off state authorities blamed on high temperatures and low oxygen levels in the water.

Officials measured the water temperature at an unusually high 84 to 86 degrees, said Maureen Wren, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

Many residents call it the worst fish kill they´ve seen in their area. "All the shrimp, the baby bunkers, carp, white perch, striped bass, all dead," said resident Steve Christen.sen, 57, as he stood on a dock on the Oceanside shore of the river.

Christensen, who added that many crabs also died, said the fish died beginning Tuesday night and he saw them surfacing with mouths gaping, as if gasping for air.

One expert said this may have been exactly what the fish were doing before they expired. "They´re trying to bubble more oxygen into the water that passes over their gills," said Gordon Taylor, a biologist at the Marine Sciences Research Center at Stony Brook University. Taylor said marine life often exhibit this behavior when water becomes hypoxic -- when oxygen levels drop dangerously low as temperatures rise.

The DEC and Hempstead town officials also blamed .hypoxia.

"More than likely, it´s a lack of oxygen in the water," said Ron Masters, the Town of Hempstead´s commissioner of conservation and waterways.

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Dead Fish At Cary Lake Probably A Result From Heat, Water Official Says

POSTED: 6:46 pm EDT August 17, 2005

CARY, N.C. -- Sorching temperatures created problems at a Cary lake, leaving many people in the area wondering what happened, as well as a mess for crews to clean.

Hundreds of dead shad fish floated to the surface of Lochmere Lake.

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Lake Koocanusa fish kill investigated
Posted: Thursday, Aug 18, 2005 - 08:40:10 am PDT
By JIM MANN
The Daily Inter Lake

They don´t know how it happened, but officials with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks intend to sleuth their way to answers behind a another fish kill on Lake Koocanusa.

"We´ve seen identical types of kills at least twice before," said Jim Vashro, the department´s regional fisheries manager.

The difference this time was a timely report and a quick response that allowed the department´s fish health specialist to collect samples of the dead kokanee salmon before they decomposed.

"Obviously, as the fish decompose, any evidence is degraded," Vashro said. "It appears the bulk of the fish died on Sunday and Monday and it was reported late Monday. Our fish health specialist from Great Falls was able to find fish that were still dying on Tuesday, so he got very good samples. The kill involved "thousands" of kokanee salmon, with some odd circumstances.

"What´s interesting is every dead fish is an adult kokanee that was getting ready to spawn in about a month," Vashro said. "No other fish species are affected and no young kokanee are affected, so that´s kind of peculiar."

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has released its preliminary findings in this spring´s dolphin die-off; 107 dolphins died in 35 days here in the Panhandle.

With every dolphin carcass, another piece of the puzzle was discovered, but researchers are still searching for the main picture.

Dr. Teri Rowles with NOAA led the research response effort along the Panhandle.

"It look like they died shortly after ingesting a meal. Many of the animals had whole or partially digested fish in the stomach," he says.

NOAA got involved almost immediately to study this unusual mortality event. This is the third dolphin die-off related to red tide in the Gulf of Mexico, and the second one off the Florida Panhandle. However, this time the animals showed a higher level of brevetoxin, which is produced by red tide.

Ron Hardy, the owner of Gulf World, was the on-site coordinator for the dolphin recovery. He says every bit of information is useful.

"When you take probably the most popular living mammal in the ocean, the whales and the dolphins, to monitor their health and what´s going on with them. I think tells us the health of the ocean itself."

NOAA dismissed any link between the die-off and military activity in the Gulf or possible pollutants as a distinctive factor in the dolphin deaths. Hardy says nothing is being taken for granted in this research process, despite taking some time.

"There´s a lot of things we´ve learned that doesn´t involve red tide. When you get that many animals and you can do the necropsies and do all the tissue, so we´re just learning hundreds and hundreds of things."

The focus now is why the toxin is killing the dolphins and at what level is the toxin potentially fatal, but until all the questions are answered, the puzzle remains unsolved.


A report here that dates back to 2007

Insects, Birds And Fish Dying In The Millions

http://loveforlife.com.au/content/07...dying-millions

Million Fish Die In Colorado
At Once - 'A Lack Of Oxygen'?
From Judith Moriarty
3-10-7


I was having a cup of tea in the kitchen when I heard a 'brief' blurb on the news telling of a million fish that had died in the Colorado River (covering an area of 7 miles). The reason given was 'lack of oxygen'. I waited to hear more on evening broadcasts (pictures) and there was NOTHING just that 30 second announcement. When I went searching I found that this was not an aberration pertaining just to the Colorado, but was happening in all parts of the country (rivers & lakes) and to put the people, who blame farmer's fertilizer at ease, many of these areas had no farms anywhere near them. Tens of thousands of fish have been found in California, Oregon, Washington State, Pennsylvania, and the Potomac etc. Looking further, I found that this is happening world wide, from Romania to China! Combine these massive die-offs with thousands of dead whales, sea turtles, porpoises, birds, honey bees, and butterflies.well, it's not hard to reason that the planet is dying. These massive deaths appear to be reported only locally and never making it to the national scene or an all out alarm by the EPA or environmental (corporate sponsored) groups?

The Gulf of Mexico has a DEAD ZONE that is approximately 7,000 square miles! Oregon has a DEAD ZONE off of its coast the size of Rhode Island. NO ALARM bells. I can understand this depraved indifference, since massive pollution, (84,000 gallons a day) from a landfill holding 2.3 MILLION TONS of putrid garbage is contaminating ground water and rivers in my own state (NH). When our state Department of Environmental Services held a hearing in the little town of Bethlehem (northern NH) they had the audacity to tell a citizen, who held a jar aloft, with this rusted polluted water that 'iron is good for you'. Sending the website 'Goliath Trust' and photos off to the Governor, Executive Council, and various legislators, was met with SILENCE. Moral: Corporate polluters, military testing (sonar), corporate HOG farmers, etc, take precedence over the health of the nation and our waters...

September 18, 2010
Second large fish kill reported in Plaquemines
More testing needed to determine cause of death of thousands of fish

http://www.wwltv.com/news/local/Thir...103204929.html

Officials in Plaquemines Parish are reporting a fish kill in Bayou Robinson – the third such fish kill in the parish in recent days.
P. J. Hahn, director for the Coastal Zone Management Department, took photos of another large fish kill in the waters of Plaquemines Parish.
The previous fish kills were reported in Bay Chaland and Bay Joe Wise and were predominantly menhaden, also called pogie.
The Bay Chaland fish kill was discovered on Sept. 10 and the Bay Joe Wise fish kill was discovered by officials Thursday.

“Hahn said Thursday that the fish (in Bay Joe Wise) covered at least one-fourth of a square mile, with oil visible among them. He said he wanted the area tested because it was affected by oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill,” said a report from the Associated Press.
In addition to hundreds of thousands of dead fish floating west of the Mississippi River in Bayou Chaland, several days before, a large starfish kill was found in nearby Barataria Bay, and a dead baby whale was discovered near Venice a few days later.
So far, none of the fish kills have been connected to oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico from the Deepwater Horizon or the oil disperant used in fighting the oil spill.

A day after reported, Randy Pausina, assistant secretary for the Office of Fisheries in the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, said biologists went to check the fish kill at Bay Joe Wise on Friday and expected to find the cause to be similar to Bay Chaland, low oxygen caused by high temperatures in shallow water.
“‘The hotter the water is, the less oxygen the water can hold,’ Pausina said. Heat also speeds up plant and animal metabolism, so they need more oxygen. Fish trapped in shallow water use up its oxygen and suffocate,” said a report from the Associated Press.

WEDNESDAY, 22 SEPTEMBER 2010

Another massive fish kill: The Almonda River, Portugal
Loss of life of “thousand of fish” in the river Almonda
Appologies for the translation

The president of the Meeting of Clientele of Azinhaga, in concelho of the Golegã, alerted this tuesday for a loss of life of “thousand of fish” in the river Almonda. Vítor Guide attributes the death of the fish to a pollutant discharge in the water course. The situation was detected no longer passed Saturday and the Service of Protecção of the Nature and Ambiente (SEPNA) of the GNR confirmed to the Lusa that if dislocated to the place in the sunday, day 19, not advancing still which the reasons of the loss of life of the fish. “Already we cannot more life thus I smell, it is insuportável and each time has more fish died in waters and in the edges of the river”, it added Vítor Guide. The autarca also alleges that the stations of residual water treatment (ETAR) of concelho nothing have to see with the pollutant discharge because. In accordance with Vítor Guide, as much the ETAR of the Golegã as the ETAR of Azinhaga is to send the volumes for the estuary of the river Tejo, in a zone downstream of where the pollutant discharge in the river Almonda was detected. This discharge is to be investigated by the SEPNA together with technician of the Hidrográfica Administration of the Region of the Tejo (ARH-Tejo), that they had collected in the place some samples of the water for analysis. The chunk of the river Almonda where if it verifies the death of the fish is placed already is of the Natural Reserve of the Paul of the Boquilobo, still related the autarca of Azinhaga.

Dozens of whales die on New Zealand beach
'More whales are still coming in,' says rescuer; some are tossed onto rocks
9/22/2010
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — At least 40 out of some 80 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a remote northern New Zealand beach have died, and more whales are joining them on land, officials said Wednesday.
It was the second mass beaching in the region in a month.

"More whales are still coming in. Pilot whales have very strong social bonds and they try to help each other so more keep getting stuck," said Mark Simpson of Project Jonah, a charity that protects marine mammals.
"Rescuers are concentrating on trying to move the mammals out of the surf and onto the beach to prevent them from drowning," New Zealand's Department of Conservation said in a statement. "Sadly, many have been washed up against the rocks probably resulting in injuries."

DOC staffer Patrick Whaley said rough seas and gusting winds, some reaching 40 knots, were making it extremely hard to move the animals that were scattered along 1.5 miles of beach.

New Zealand Department of Conservation via AP
Dead whales are removed from the beach at Spirits Bay on Wednesday.
"It’s heart-wrenching to have to see so many whales coming ashore and then drowning in the surf, without being able to reach them in time," he said.

Whaley said the DOC had already had to make the decision to euthanize some of the weakest and most stressed animals. "It is absolutely cruel to leave them to suffer a slow and painful death," he said.
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Conditions at Spirits Bay meant the survivors will have to be taken by road about an hour south to Rarawa Beach on Thursday morning where they will be refloated.
"They will be lifted up with big nets on to the back of trucks with straw or hay loaded on them," Simpson said.
DOC area manager Jonathan Maxwell said at least 25 of the animals were already dead when officials arrived at Spirits Bay, and another 15 had died by nightfall. In addition to the 40 still alive and stuck on the beach, another 50 were spotted just offshore, he said, though some of them had since beached.

Volunteers from Far North Whale Rescue, conservation officials and the local Maori community planned to stay at the beach overnight to help keep the whales alive.
"We need as many volunteers as possible, as it will be at least until tomorrow before we can look at refloating them, which means caring for them over the next 2 days," Maxwell said Wednesday.
In mid-August at nearby Karikari Beach, 58 pilot whales stranded. Despite hundreds of helpers fighting to save them, just nine were eventually floated off the beach and returned to the sea.
A pod of 101 pilot whales stranded on the same beach in 2007.

New Zealand has one of the world's highest rates of whale strandings, mainly during their migrations to and from Antarctic waters, one of which begins around September.
Since 1840, the Department of Conservation has recorded more than 5,000 strandings of whales and dolphins around the New Zealand coast. Scientists have not been able to determine why whales become stranded.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39306691...s-environment/


A site that lists many different kill offs.
http://www.thebigwobble.com/2010/08/...creatures.html

[Bill Ryan]

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I offer this morsel of interesting information. I spoke with 'Charles' yesterday for a short while, and he suggested indirectly that these incidents were caused by HAARP.

This was not a clear definitive statement, but an allusion in passing while talking about other matters. I noted the remark, and it seemed to fit. Think of it as a hypothesis to be checked - which I've not done.

[bluestflame]

little disconcerting, if it is, as it seems likely, because of the widespread incidents of birds and fish around the world, they may be preparing it for a more mammalian use

[DawgBone]

Posted by Rozzy (here)
Like there is a difference, when you have two pigs no matter which one you choose it is still a pig.

There admittedly is not much difference. They are both owned by the transnational corporations.

[Zook]

Good morning, Good Avalon, Good Bill ... the Earth says hello!

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
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I offer this morsel of interesting information. I spoke with 'Charles' yesterday for a short while, and he suggested indirectly that these incidents were caused by HAARP.
This was not a clear definitive statement, but an allusion in passing while talking about other matters. I noted the remark, and it seemed to fit. Think of it as a hypothesis to be checked - which I've not done.

Yes ... my best intuition spelled HAARP when I read reports of liquefied internal organs. Think along this line: water can be vibrated with sound. Most living things are multicellular constructions. Cells are mostly water. Cell burst. Don't know what range of frequencies they are using (e.g. microwaves??), but the bees had already experienced a reduction in their number and some have linked that to radiation from cellular phones.

Perhaps the underground bases are there to offer protection from HAARP energies when the Mastards decide to irradiate the planet's surface? Radiation from irradiation would be short-lived in comparison to nuclear radiation, no?

Here's some info on HAARP:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Pch4QtJFz24

Nothing researched. Just thoughts.



ps: Crop circles = HAARP circles??

[kinsuemei2]

I also heard of the Modified LRAD that operates on a frequency that resonates the same as the birds, in this case their rib cage, but his can be adapted to humans and their skull, what a seriously sick and twisted WMD that is, ask Charles about it. We know it does exist, but is it operational, and I am not suggesting it WAS used here, it's mere theory and one that does not explain the fish, but the Phosgene gas leak, this however is a rumor, but does suggest that it could be done, reason being Phosgene is like chlorine it reacts as a gas in the water, and does escape into the atmosphere much like chlorine, however would need to be extremely condensed to kill birds and indeed the surrounding wild life would also die.

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HAARP is the obvious choice, using electromagnetic pressure, so what first the fish, then birds, then the crops and then US? And I said it was HAARP on Tuesday on the Ben and Jerry show for the UTE

[Rocky_Shorz]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
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I offer this morsel of interesting information. I spoke with 'Charles' yesterday for a short while, and he suggested indirectly that these incidents were caused by HAARP.

This was not a clear definitive statement, but an allusion in passing while talking about other matters. I noted the remark, and it seemed to fit. Think of it as a hypothesis to be checked - which I've not done.

The same as the birds in the US...

Dead birds in Sweden killed by 'external blows'

(CNN) -- A large number of dead birds were found in the city of Falköping, Sweden, on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to the Swedish National Veterinary Institute.

Autopsies were performed on five of the birds. The institute said they died due to "sudden, hard external blows," according to its website. They had no signs of infection or other illnesses, and there were no external signs indicating what killed them.

story link

[Rocky_Shorz]

this morning I was quite surprised when a black bird flew in the open door and across the room landing on my desk and looking at me, it turned to fly out the window, accepted my finger and landed on it so I could bring it back to the doorway...

talk about a message...

[shiva777]

a map of reported unexplained animal deaths

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...bca25af104a22b

[irishspirit]

Madison lab solves mystery of Arkansas blackbird die-off

The mystery of the deaths of thousands of blackbirds in Arkansas this month has been solved.

They died of blunt-force trauma, according to the National Wildlife Health Center in Madison. Samples of the blackbirds - and other blackbirds from a separate mass die-off about the same time in Louisiana - were brought to the little-known laboratory on Madison's west side for necropsies.

"They died of impact force to their bodies," said Scott Wright, chief of disease investigations at the center.

He said the birds clearly showed signs of bruises and hemorrhaging.

About 3,000 blackbirds died on New Year's Eve. Fireworks probably sent them flying from their roost sites.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/113018024.html

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Dead birds in Sweden killed by 'external blows'

(CNN) -- A large number of dead birds were found in the city of Falköping, Sweden, on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to the Swedish National Veterinary Institute.

Autopsies were performed on five of the birds. The institute said they died due to "sudden, hard external blows," according to its website. They had no signs of infection or other illnesses, and there were no external signs indicating what killed them.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/eu...ths/index.html

[irishspirit]

as much as I hate to say it, you fall from the sky and hit the ground, your going to show signs of blunt force and trauma

[rgray222]

This truly is a global event not confined to any particular species or subspecies. To help put into perspective here is a global google earth map outlining the location of each event, it is being constantly updated.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...c2e41cf55affcb

[irishspirit]

rgray,

very true.

One has to ask, is this the start of the world wide starvation we have all been promised?

I hear that there has been a die of of chickens in Asia also from Bird flu. I will source a link for this.

[irishspirit]

Fish kill on Folly Beach claims thousands

FOLLY BEACH — Hundreds of thousands of dead menhaden littered the sand here this morning, stretching in either direction from the Folly Pier in a line along the tide wash as far as could be seen. Blackbirds and grackle were picking at them.

State wildlife biologists are responding the kill; early indications are that it’s cold-related, said Phil Maier with the S.C. Department of Natural Resources. The menhaden appear to have been healthy otherwise. Officials at other nearby beaches had no reports of fish kills there.

The die-off follows the discovery of thousands of dead starfish on Isle of Palms in December, amid a growing list of sea life trauma caused by unusually cold sea temperatures. The cold has wildlife officials alarmed for food and game fish such as shrimp, as well as sea trout and red drum. Isolated reports of lethargic and dead trout and drum have been coming in to DNR, Maier said.

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2...l-folly-beach/

[Zook]

Posted by irishspirit (here)
as much as I hate to say it, you fall from the sky and hit the ground, your going to show signs of blunt force and trauma

Don't hate to say it, Spirit Irish ... say it with fortitude!

"Madison lab solves mystery of Arkansas blackbird die-off" (quote from above post)

Solves, indeed. The devil's bureaucracy is not even trying hard to fool us anymore. Drop a pumpkin from a hundred feet and see the energies at work. A bird at 500 feet? Which brings us back to the question at hand .. why did they fall? Do falls from such heights have the ability to liquefy internal organs? Do diets? More questions. Were the falls from the sky near simultaneous? If not, what can account for so many falls in such a short time ... diet? So many unanswered questions yet NDHC in Madison is ready to put the stamp on the mystery and toss it in the 'solved' bin.



ps: Good work, Spirit of Irish. The fact of height and gravity and conversion of potential energy had not even entered my thought process. IMHO, HAARP is definitely involved. But before we can get to HAARP, these matchbook college scientists need to be exposed for their incompetence and/or their audacity; and your observation of the likely cause of blunt force trauma, does just that.

[Bill Ryan]

Posted by conk (here)
When I was a soldier I repaired missile radar equipment. Some of the guys would point the Continuous Wave Radar at a bird on a wire or in a tree. Within a short period of time the bird would fall dead, microwaved to death. So, the energy was sustained for some period. For a bird to simply fly through some kind of energy and die, the energy would have to be very powerful.

'Charles' suggested to me - but very indirectly - that this might be HAARP. I could immediately believe it.

Separately, here is an astonishing map. Forgive me if this has already been posted.

The image is a screenshot. Click on the link for all details.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UT...bca25af104a22b

[wynderer]

yes, these deaths could be HAARP-related -- but HAARP has been around since when -- the '80s? & there have been isolated incidents of bird deaths, but not to this extent before -- why the big increase at this time? along w/the fact that many people here on the forum & in my personal life are reporting sleep problems, strange dreams, etc -- are we approaching the final countdown?

[chelmostef]

I have a sneaky feeling this is a fall out from the gulf of mexico disaster as is the other deaths and weather changes we are seeing... But I could be completely wrong of course.

[Zillah]

I too 2nd the possibility of HAARP, it was the first thing that struck me once I heard the news. 10 thousand + birds died here in Manitoba (Canada) too - and they are doing a mean job covering up the events. MANY Winnipeggers heard the local news on our Top radio news station CJOB - and later in the day it was like the news was wiped from history, no one could find anything on the subject to reference it. The only proof were the people who tuned into the morning news to hear it. Sounds buggy to me.

I didnt have time to read all pages in this thread, so pardon me if this was mentioned already.