Sea Life Flocks To Coast To Avoid BP Gulf Oil Spill As Millions of Dead Fish Float Ashore

  Posted by - June 17, 2010 at 4:02 am - Permalink - Source via Alexander Higgins Blog
Millions of dead fish from oil spill in Lousianna - No that's not a road... Its dead fish.
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Here’s a press release from the Associated Press titled Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore.

The story is aggravating on many levels, not just the animals are facing environmental Armageddon that is nothing short of ECOCIDE, but because of the mass misrepresentation of the facts by the story that does little more than aid and abet BP and enable them to continue their media blackout and shove their mass campaign of disinformation down throats of the public.

I will interject my comments in bold lettering.

By JAY REEVES, JOHN FLESHER and TAMARA LUSH (AP) – 10 hours ago

GULF SHORES, Ala. — Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water just off the Florida coast. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.

Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange — and troubling — phenomena.

Suprisingly? Strange? Really. Their is nothing that is “surprisingly” or strange about animals fleeing from a stew of black tide and the neurotoxin pesticides that BP has sprayed to hide the oil from the public.

Fish and other wildlife are fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast. But that is not the hopeful sign it might appear to be, researchers say.

The animals’ presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily get devoured by predators.

Could result in mass die-offs? Come again. How about will and already has resulted in mass die-offs is more like it. There are already reports of thousands of dead fish washing up in two locations Florida, in Alabama, in Mississippi and millions of dead fish in Louisiana

millions of dead fish from oil spill in Lousianna - No that's not a road... Its dead fish.

Millions of dead fish from oil spill in Louisiana - No that's not a road... Its dead fish.

“A parallel would be: Why are the wildlife running to the edge of a forest on fire? There will be a lot of fish, sharks, turtles trying to get out of this water they detect is not suitable,” said Larry Crowder, a Duke University marine biologist.

The nearly two-month-old oil spill has created an environmental catastrophe unparalleled in U.S. history as tens of millions of gallons of have spewed into the Gulf of Mexico ecosystem. Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life.

“Scientists are seeing some unusual things as they try to understand the effects on thousands of species of marine life”. This sounds so ridiculous to me. This isn’t the first oil spill that has ever happened although BP and Government seem to be pretending it is at every corner. But for the media to report scientists are now trying to understand the effects of an oil spill as if it where the first time is absolutely absurd.

Day by day, scientists in boats tally up dead birds, sea turtles and other animals, but the toll is surprisingly small given the size of the disaster. The latest figures show that 783 birds, 353 turtles and 41 mammals have died — numbers that pale in comparison to what happened after the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska in 1989, when 250,000 birds and 2,800 otters are believed to have died.

I wonder if the BP Media Blackout has anything to do with the numbers? I mean there are wide spread of reports about BP workers mutilating and hiding carcasses of dead animals and not reporting them as Keith Olbmerman reports. An what about the millions of fish I just mentioned?

Researchers say there are several reasons for the relatively small death toll: The vast nature of the spill means scientists are able to locate only a small fraction of the dead animals. Many will never be found after sinking to the bottom of the sea or getting scavenged by other marine life. And large numbers of birds are meeting their deaths deep in the Louisiana marshes where they seek refuge from the onslaught of oil.

Funny how you neglect to mention BP destroying evidence of dead animals.


Also funny how the article seems to discount all of the dead fish like the ones above.

“That is their understanding of how to protect themselves,” said Doug Zimmer, spokesman for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

For nearly four hours Monday, a three-person crew with Greenpeace cruised past delicate islands and mangrove-dotted inlets in Barataria Bay off southern Louisiana. They saw dolphins by the dozen frolicking in the oily sheen and oil-tinged pelicans feeding their young. But they spotted no dead animals.

“I think part of the reason why we’re not seeing more yet is that the impacts of this crisis are really just beginning,” Greenpeace marine biologist John Hocevar said.

Or maybe we are already seeing the evidence, it’s just the media isn’t reporting it.

As for the fish, locals are seeing large schools hanging around piers where fishing has been banned; apparently the fish feel safer now that they are not being disturbed by fishermen.

Yep. Its apparent all these animals are flocking to the shore because they aren’t being bothered by fisherman. Has nothing to do with oil right?

Also, researchers believe fish are swimming closer to shore because the water is cleaner and more abundant in oxygen. Father out in the Gulf, researchers say, the spill is not only tainting the water with oil but also depleting oxygen levels.

“Also” further out in the gulf there is oil. Do you not think we don’t see pictures of oil on the beaches every day? I mean hundreds of tarballs have washed up on one Florida beach last night alone. It is so bad that local Florida officials have decided ignore BP and the feds and act on their own to fight the oil, even though the face criminal charges and prosecution for doing so.

A similar scenario occurs during “dead zone” periods — the time during summer months when oxygen becomes so depleted that fish race toward shore in large numbers. Sometimes, so many fish gather close to the shoreline off Mobile that locals rush to the beach with tubs and nets to reap the harvest.

Yeah there you go. Journalistic foreshadowing. That’s a hint of excuses that will be made in the future as millions more dead animals wash up on the shore.

But this latest shore migration could prove deadly.

First, more oil could eventually wash ashore and overwhelm the fish. They could also become trapped between the slick and the beach, leading to increased competition for oxygen in the water and causing them to die as they run out of air.

“Their ability to avoid it may be limited in the long term, especially if in near-shore refuges they’re crowding in close to shore, and oil continues to come in. At some point they’ll get trapped,” Crowder said. “It could lead to die-offs.”

I love this, I really do. All of the oxygen disappearing from the sea is because there are to many fish. It has nothing to due with the methane or oil depleting the oxygen and creating dead zones, its just because there are two many fish.

I mean the methane gas release that is reported to be 3000 times worse than oil and is 100% absorbed into the sea and was responsible for the dinosaur extinction and is known to cause dead zones has nothing to do with the oxygen depletion, right?

Well, now that I think about it, it’s kind of like summer time. When to many people gather on a beach some start dying because there isn’t enough oxygen for all of them. Now it makes sense. I am just so stupid some times.

The fish could also fall victim to predators such as sharks and seabirds. Already there have been increased shark sightings in shallow waters along the Gulf Coast.

The counting of dead wildlife in the Gulf is more than an academic exercise; the deaths will help determine how much BP pays in damages.

Yeah, it is an academic exercise alright. We need the best and brightest scientists and PHDs to count dead animals. Oh that’s right its “denial by default”. Those millions of dead fish that have died already and the millions more that will die will mostly likely never be autopsied. It is easier and cheaper for the Government and less harsh on BP to just make up some other excused as to why they have died.

Roger Helm, chief of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s contaminants division, said the government expects a battle with BP over the extent of the damage and has every incentive to be scientifically credible.

“Both sides go to their own corner and interpret the data the way they want,” Helm said. “This is a legal process, and if we can’t get an agreement we’ll end up in court.”

Scientific and credible, you say. I am sure BP is playing by those rules. GIVE ME PROOF!!!. How many dead animals have been reported by BP clean up workers? How many?

Here’s What’s Really Happening In Grand Isle

That’s what’s happening on the Gulf coast.

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