20 tons of herring wash up on Norway coast

The Sideshow ^ | January 3, 2012 | Eric Pfeiffer

[decimon]

An estimated 20 tons of dead herring fish mysteriously washed up on the cost of Norway and then disappeared.

The fish remains turned up on Norway's northern coast on New Year's Eve, and officials are still looking to explain just how and why they showed up.

"People say that something similar happened in the 80s," said local resident Jan-Petter Jorgensen, 44, who was walking his dog Molly when he made the discovery.

"Maybe the fish have been caught in a deprived oxygen environment, and then died of fresh water?" Jorgensen asked.

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Locals, meanwhile, had to ponder just what a seaside community does with 20 tons of dead fish. However, nature once more intervened, and the massive dead-herring haul vanished just as quickly as it seemed to have appeared. Holst says that coastal tidewaters most likely washed the fish remains back into the North Sea.

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[JRandomFreeper]

As opposed to what, exactly?

Norwegiens scooping them up by the truckload? Hell, if I was there I'd take a half-ton or so and freeze them for cat food, if nothing else. ;)

/johnny

[GladesGuru]

“We can always use the extra barrels for corn whiskey....”.

Corn whiskey from old fish? Now that would be quite an accomplishment.

Do you by any chance you walk well on water, too?

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

They were expecting to do some logging?

[goat granny]

When my parents had property on Lake Huron one year we had Alewife die off’s all summer...the shoreline stunk, by the following summer they were all gone...die off’s happen and I don’t think anyone knows why.....were quite as bad as that picture, but constant maybe a couple of feet all along the shoreline...no sense in cleaning them up, the next day more would be there...no swimming that summer...