Posted on 09/14/2010 7:43:35 PM PDT by mojitojoe
laquemines Parish officials have asked state wildlife officials to investigate what they said is a massive fish kill at Bayou Chaland on the west side of the Mississippi River late Friday. Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish floating atop the water.
The fish kill was reported to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries and the cause has not yet been determined, the parish said. The fish were found in an area that has been impacted by the oil from the BP oil spill, the parish said.
The dead fish include Porgies, Redfish, Drum, Crabs, Shrimp and freshwater Eel, the parish said.
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Periodic fish kill off’s are not unusual...Parents had a place on Lake Huron when I was just a tot, under 9 and one year the alewifes (not sure of the spelling, but its a fish) washed up on shore all summer and the place stunk, you couldln’t get rid of all of them....that was back in the 1940’s. It went on all summer and no oil spill involved. By the following summer, they were all gone. The birds and bugs had a feast all summer, fall and winter..
Yes. Menhaden die offs were so common, the Indian word for the fish was “fertilizer”. The fish breed like crazy, get chased into shallow waters by predators and suffocate themselves. The Dutch reported on an enormous Staten Island die-off in the 1600s.
The bottom picture is a dead giveaway. Those are asphalt stress cracks in a block pattern on a roadway in the bottom picture.
Fertilizer!
Must stink to high heaven. Why isn’t the MSM picking up on this instead of a no-name site?
Terrible! There will be a lot more of this happening.
I think the confusion regarding the image is due to a minor oversight on our part. Those are NOT real fish.
They are symbols for the latest of the “endangered species”, the new “Poster Creature” for the “Endangered”.
They must be symbols of the incumbents.
;-)
A wonderful idea!
I have a feeling this is only the beginning. I know that down in the Keys they are saying the lobster numbers down there this year are nothing short of incredible. Probably because they all headed South to avoid the oil and Corexit. I wonder what the effects of this will be 5 -10 -20 years from now. How many spawn were killed? Will we ever know? Probably not.
Could be.
Not buying it. Coincidence? I think not. These aren’t all bait fish. Stop protecting BP. It is what it is. I’m NOT for any drilling bans but I can also face reality.
There are many things the MSM won’t or can’t touch and I know that for a fact. I have many friends in the Coast Guard in Florida. They talk.
I also am aware that during WW2 more petroleum was spilled into the ocean by ships being bombed and going down for years than anything BP put out. Add to that planes shot down.....No one gave a second thought to what it was doing to the environment, and we are all still here...:O)
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