Posted on 09/14/2010 4:43:24 PM PDT by smokingfrog
Thousands of dead fish floated up in a marsh on Plaquemines Parish west bank over the weekend. While experts work to determine the cause, there is a likely suspect.
The BP oil spill may not have directly caused the fish kill, but WWL Outdoors expert Don Dubuc says all the extra fresh water diverted from the river to try and flush oil from the marsh is what did it.
"You mix the nutrients in fresh water with hot water temperatures, poof! You get the algae bloom and it starts to deteriorate and deplete the oxygen," Dubuc said.
Much of the fish kill were small silver menhaden, or pogies. Dubuc says the species is particularly vulnerable to low oxygen, because they school in tight groups. Plaquemines parish officials say there were also redfish, drum, crabs, shrimp and freshwater eel in the mix.
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We had a kill off of hundreds of thousands of sea snails/slugs that washed ashore weekend before last on the Florida panhandle.
I’ve never seen them before nor has anybody whose lived here their whole life. As a scuba instructor with more than 6000 dives in the Gulf have never seen them.
BP oil?
That weekend while on the beach, two workers, one from the EPA the other from the USDA were walking along the shoreline when I stopped them to inquire about the slugs. The response was the same as this article, They blamed it on freshwater, “rainfall” to quote them correctly.
We’ve had many many years go by with equal or more rain and never had these slugs before. Why now?
Funny how that weekend the BP workers that have been meandering up and down the beach with nothing to pick up and stepping over trash as they go all of a sudden were disposing of the slugs.
I can tell you exactly whats going on IMHO. There is an ecological catastrophe well underway in the Gulf of Mexico.
As the DWH oil well spewed into the Gulf the fish left ahead of it. Fisheries were closed as the oil spread and areas that were open had catches that were off the charts. It wasn’t fishing, it was catching.
Now the fishing just plain sucks. Friend of mine and charter captain for 30 years commented to me just this last saturday that he had his worst take ever.
These slugs didn’t have the mobility of the fish to swim to better water so they sat there and died and now they are washing ashore and I fear this is only still just getting started.
That’s weird.
What kind of snails were they?
“What kind of snails were they?”
I dunno. Snails without shells, kinda like a slug.
They can't manage to even do this without disastrous unintended consequences, but we can trust them to "fight climate change"?
Heck, we can't even trust their "data" that supposedly "proves" AGW/climate-change, let alone their conclusions, much less their "solutions".
I bet the smell is something that can only be imagined.
Thanks ApplegateRanch, and well said.
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