Posted on 03/05/2015 11:50:56 AM PST by Red Badger
Cooke Aquaculture sites in Annapolis Basin, Shelburne Harbour, Jordan Bay reporting mortalities
Fish at three aquaculture sites in Nova Scotia have died and a so-called superchill is suspected, the provincial Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture said Tuesday.
Cooke Aquaculture's sites in the Annapolis Basin, Shelburne Harbour and Jordan Bay are reporting mortalities, officials said.
A fish health veterinarian visited the Annapolis Basin and Shelburne Harbour sites and is expected to visit the Jordan Bay site in the next few days to investigate the cause of death, Fisheries and Aquaculture Minister Keith Colwell said in a statement.
"Our provincial fish health veterinarians investigate mortality events to rule out diseases of concern," he said.
The department said a preliminary investigation has found a superchill happened, meaning sustained cold temperatures dropped the temperature of the water to the level that fish blood freezes, which is around –0.7 C.
Tides in late February and early March also tend to be high, the department said, contributing to to lowering temperatures in sea cages by flooding more shallow areas than usual. Low air temperatures cool the water and receding tides flush the cages with superchilled water.
The Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture said superchills happen every five to seven years and the deaths do not pose a risk to the environment.
Global warming causes global cooling.
Well, gee!
I wonder how the Bay of “fundee”(sp) lobster business, touted on QVC, will be doing with all the extra food, come the thaw.
(Fish die in freeze, kept frozen till thaw, when they sink to the bay floor, where the lobsters live ... you get the picture.)
They never knew what hit ‘em! First the chickens, now da fishes! No one is safe.
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Flat Earth er.
Just kidding I think we need to come up with an derogatory name for their man made science.
Prefrozen for GroTon?
>Global warming causes global cooling.
And rising sea levels cause shallower tides.
Build a nuclear power plant nearby, and cycle the cooling water through the fisheries to keep them warm in winter.
Wish Global Warming would hurry up and get here.
So do the fish...................
First they flounder, then they lobster...............
GlowBull Warming works.....................
PETA.............................
My 7 day forecast says it might get up into the 50 degree range by next weekend.
And lobsters have a higher value per pound too.
A Superchill during a polar vortex. We need more panic words.
And is it really a problem. Just eat the fish!!!
Can’t be. The oceans are storing all the heat. /s
The name for global warming science is ‘hucksterism’.
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