birds and fish mysteriously die

[henniek]

Blackbirds falling from the sky in Arkansas, hundreds of dead birds found in Louisiana and Sweden, millions of dead fish in Maryland, Brazil and New Zealand - » Click here to see interactive map

Yesterday, there were reports of dead birds near Tyler, Texas in the United States, 40,000 devil crabs washed up dead on the Kent coast in England and thousands of dead fish were found in a freshwater creek in Florida.

New Zealand has been drawn into the web after the deaths of hundreds of snapper - washed up on Coromandel beaches this week - were matched by similar occurrences in both Brazil and Maryland, in the US.

The Baltimore Sun reported that an estimated 2 million fish were found dead in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay on Tuesday, with both adult and juvenile fish surfacing.

Maryland Department of the Environment spokesperson Dawn Stoltzfus told the Sun "cold-water stress" was believed to be the reason, saying similar mass winter fish deaths were documented in 1976.

Meanwhile, ParanaOnline reported that 100 tons of sardines, croaker and catfish had washed up in Brazilian fishing towns since last Thursday. The cause of the deaths was unknown, with an imbalance in the environment, chemical pollution, or accidental release from a fishing boat all suggested by local officials.

Earlier, reports from the US said that, in the days prior to New Year, nearly 100,000 fish surfaced in an Arkansas river 160km west of Beebe.

New Zealand's snapper deaths were explained by the Department of Conservation as being the result of starvation or weather conditions. The Ministry of Fisheries, however, is also investigating and blamed it on a mass dumping or a split net.

The fish deaths, while unlikely to create a stir on their own, followed recent reports of dead birds falling from the sky in Arkansas and Louisiana, United States. 

Thousands of dead birds were found in Beebe, Arkansas, on New Year's Eve. A few days later, around 500 of the same species were found in Louisiana, 480km south.

A Kentucky woman also reported finding dozens of dead birds scattered around her home, while on Wednesday, officials in Sweden found  dead birds on a street.

Louisiana state biologists are trying to determine what led to the deaths of the red-winged blackbirds and starlings, with State Wildlife veterinarian Jim LaCour telling the Daily Mail that lab tests could take several weeks to come up with an explanation.

LaCour refused to speculate on the cause of deaths - though others are blaming cold weather, fireworks and powerlines - but did say mass bird deaths have been known to occur in the state in the past, albeit in smaller numbers.

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Here a DOC spokesman said, while it was tempting to link the worldwide events together, each separate incident needed to be looked at individually before links were made.

"It may be a natural phenomenon, it may be due to the weather conditions but we don't know that."

DOC said La Nina weather patterns were expected to cause the deaths of hundreds of sea birds during the summer, as their food sources were depleted, but that scenario could not be linked to the snapper deaths.


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[Bertie Horak]

Interesting.  I can not see how the possible causes they mention can be responsible for the deaths in such a wide range of different locations.  Hope to get more info.
I bet human beings have in some way contributed to this.  Or maybe the aliens moved from cow mutilations to birds & fish????