Molly the dog discovers 20 tons of herring on a Norwegian beach
Posted on 01/03/2012 7:57:07 PM PST by 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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Sounds fishy to me.
Give it a couple of days to rot and that dog would be in heaven.
It smells fishy, too. :)
Could you sell it to the Finns and Swedes (I’m 1/2 Swede) for Pickled Herring?
That is going to make a LOT of Lutefisk!
Is that the sun shining on that dog..... above the Artic Circle just 9 days past the winter solstace?
3...2...1.....global warming!
Where’s a Smell-o-Vision widget when ya need it?
all they need is a heat wave about now.. whewww-eee.
Got it... 1/4 ton each of coriander, fennel, celery, and mint.
2 tons of salt.
Now to figure out how many barrels will be required..
Anyone know the specific gravity of dead herring?
/johnny
Quick, call Long John Silver, Arthur Treacher’s and MacDonalds, and tell them their fish supply is here.
Should still be 1.0? Or a little less, what with the oil.
A bit less. They float.
It would take forever with a home blender. And they might go bad worse unmanagably horrible.
/johnny
It's more complex of a calculation that you might think. Here - this might help:
A Specific Gravity Method for Determining Fatness (Condition) in Herring (Clupea pallasii)
ABSTRACT - Condition factors calculated on the basis of weight and length are not a satisfactory index of fatness and a new index called a "fat factor" (F) is described. This is related to the specific gravity (G) of a fish by the equation F = G/(G − 1). Seasonal trends in F and a high positive correlation between F and percentage oil content of individual fish demonstrate its superiority over other condition factors as an index of fatness. A difference in either the specific gravity of, or ether-soluble material in, male and female gonads is reflected in the F values of male and female fish as a whole.
"Most likely?"
LOL
As opposed to what, exactly?
We can always use the extra barrels for corn whiskey or something.
/johnny
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