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Salmon have been dying mysteriously on the West Coast for years. Scientists think a chemical in tires may be responsible
CNN via MSN ^ | 03 Dec 2020 | Drew Kann

Posted on 12/03/2020 3:01:28 PM PST by blueplum

For decades, scientists say something alarming has been happening in the streams and rivers where coho salmon return from the Pacific Ocean to spawn along the West Coast.

After heavy rain events each fall, the fish have been turning up dead in huge numbers before they spawn, a mysterious phenomenon that has been the subject of intense research for years.

Now, scientists think they have found a key piece to this morbid puzzle...tires...

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: fisheries; pollution; tires; westcoast
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To: blueplum

So-o-o-o, the salmon are too tired?


41 posted on 12/03/2020 6:27:42 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, demonicRATS would have no standards at all.)
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To: blueplum

It’s probably too much of that toxic, western state dope getting into the water.


42 posted on 12/03/2020 6:58:45 PM PST by familyop
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To: nascarnation

The Michelin “X-Ice Snow” tires are pretty good. Little gooey at first on dry roads but sticky as can be without studs on water and ice.


43 posted on 12/03/2020 7:02:56 PM PST by familyop
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To: blueplum

If we didn’t have communists lying about fish and everything else, most of our economic problems would be gone.


44 posted on 12/03/2020 7:05:40 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: reasonisfaith

Time to declare communism a terrorist organization!


45 posted on 12/03/2020 7:06:18 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Biden will fix it all right. Agenda21/Beijing kinda fix - no cars in rural areas - limited access tour busses only - everybody to their assigned city cubbyholes. So we can be taxed to turn the area into a resort for our betters. Notice how the authors threw ocean micro-plastics oh nooos into the chemical bad argument?


46 posted on 12/03/2020 7:40:14 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: maddog55

I’m guessing human feces run off from liberal shxthole cities

I’m going all in on your correct answer sir!!!!!.


47 posted on 12/03/2020 11:10:01 PM PST by Pocketdoor (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uufeEhq25rc)
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To: Professional

Biden’s $200 tax on $10 ammo magazines works out to about $2,000 tax per wheel. Prevents global warming AND dead salmon.


48 posted on 12/03/2020 11:16:29 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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