Pollution? Fukushima radiation? Algae bloom? Just 2 weeks after the first one, another mass die-off is discovered in Kamchatka and scares scientists worldwide

ss ^ | 10/15/20 | ss

[Sacajaweau]

A whole 150 feet....MASS dieout?

[353FMG]

Climate change — that’s all.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Looks like good surfing.

[dangus]

>> If local fishermen dumped to kill the starfish, they sure killed a lot of molluscs at the same time. <<

The one still on FR looks like a lot of molluscs (and stones), but the first video looks like about 60% starfish, 20% eels or stag coral or some combination, and 20% molluscs. Very few fish, which is what I’ve always seen washed up from a die-off. Molluscs usually don’t wash up after a kill: they secrete nets of filaments which anchor themselves to rocks; what molluscs there are probably what were already on the littoral rocks.

Not that I’ve ever seen coral wash up in large amounts either; if it IS coral, it got caught up with the starfish kill.

[dangus]

... of course, this is all in arctic Russia, so who knows, maybe it’s normal for fishkills to be mostly eels.

[lurk]

So run a geiger counter over them. That would prove radiation.

And why not do all the testing before running a panic story?

[diatomite]

The FR picture was all that I looked at. On second thought, some of those molluscs might have been brachiopods.

The coral should have been well attached and not easily washed up. More so than any other invertebrate phyla.

[dangus]

>> The coral should have been well attached and not easily washed up. More so than any other invertebrate phyla. <<

Yeah, the abundance of starfish, clams, mussels and what may be coral makes me think someone drudged up this junk. Also, the extremely concentrated, localized nature of it. But like I said, it’s Pacific Russia. Never been there.