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Millions of anchovies die on Spain beach
Yahoo/AP ^
| 9-29-06
| Harold Heckle
Posted on 09/29/2006 12:37:05 PM PDT by STARWISE
Millions of anchovies a protected species in Europe have died in northern Spain after an unexplained mass beaching, officials said Friday.
The fish, all juveniles, were found stranded along large stretches of Colunga beach, 35 miles east of the port city of Gijon, a normally pristine seaside landscape in the verdant province of Asturias.
"More than three tons have been found so far, and our main untested hypothesis at the moment is that they tried to flee from predators and accidentally beached," said Luis Laria, chief coordinator of a marine protection unit working with the government.
Laria said a European Union moratorium on fishing anchovies along the northern Atlantic coast of Spain and the western coast of France has been in place for two months. Less rigorous fishing restrictions had been used for the previous two years.
These anchovies are considered susceptible to extinction and are therefore closely monitored by scientists, according to Spain's Environment Ministry
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KEYWORDS: anchovies; beached; dyingforpizza; hatewhenthathappens; ick; pizzasad; spain; zotted
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It's Friday, Woodward's book is filling the airwaves, Rep. Foley resigned ... time to ponder epicurious news, but I can't bring myself to post the picture of those poor darlings. I wonder if the reporter gets ribbed for his name.
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:37:06 PM PDT
by
STARWISE
To: STARWISE
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:37:58 PM PDT
by
RichInOC
(No! BAD Rich!)
To: STARWISE
You sound like you want to hold the anchovies!
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:38:01 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: STARWISE
The world will be a better place...
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:38:30 PM PDT
by
madison10
To: STARWISE
"The fish, all juveniles, were found stranded along large stretches of Colunga beach, 35 miles east of the port city of Gijon"
They should have a law that prevents fish from beaching themselves. Will someone please think of the children!
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:38:38 PM PDT
by
tfecw
(It's for the children)
To: STARWISE
"No Anchovies, Please."
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:39:35 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(I can't complain...but sometimes I still do.)
To: STARWISE
Wow. The potential humorous posts from this article almost write themselves.
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:39:36 PM PDT
by
Egon
(We are number one! All others are number two... or lower.)
To: STARWISE
Quick, somebody go get a sh*tload of pizza dough, tomato sauce and pepperoni!
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:40:16 PM PDT
by
Constitution Day
(Please do not emanate into the penumbra.)
To: STARWISE
Waiting for the reports that suggest Global Warming caused this or perhaps policies of the Bush administration.
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:40:27 PM PDT
by
HEY4QDEMS
(Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.)
To: STARWISE
Environmentalist's practices overpopulated the species...
so they committed hairy canary???
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:40:37 PM PDT
by
evad
(sarcasm may be introduced at any moment of any post)
To: RichInOC
That begs the question- of all the fish in the world, who decided that anchovies belonged on a pizza? Shrimp seems like a much more natural choice.
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:40:45 PM PDT
by
Altair333
(Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Mexico Right Over)
To: STARWISE
Crackers and mustard sauce anyone?
Anchovies stink when you cook them. I used to work in a pizza place and we would open the back door when we had to make a pizza with anchovies, shrimp too.
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:40:57 PM PDT
by
swmobuffalo
(The only good terrorist is a dead terrorist.)
To: STARWISE
Sounds like its time to cut bait or fish!
To: STARWISE
The fish, all juveniles...... Fish Fad?............
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:41:26 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro DEAD YET?........)
To: STARWISE
If this happens to pepperonis then I'll start to be concerned.
To: STARWISE
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:42:05 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything!")
To: tfecw
"after an unexplained mass beaching"
Anchovies and mass beaching just strikes me as funny.
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:42:11 PM PDT
by
MPJackal
("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
To: STARWISE
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:42:20 PM PDT
by
SmithL
(Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
To: STARWISE
Ohhhhhhhhh the humanity!!!
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:42:23 PM PDT
by
A Texan
(Oderint dum metuant)
To: STARWISE
I'll bet it smelled worse then the East German gymnastics team locker room.
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posted on
09/29/2006 12:42:57 PM PDT
by
Lekker 1
(("...the world will be...eleven degrees colder by the year 2000" -- K. Watt, Earth Day, 1970)
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