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[chris gadsden]

http://www.activistpost.com/2013/08/why-are-millions-of-fish-suddenly-dying.html?m=1

[arimaBOATER]

Very powerful link.
Knowing human nature I think there is more truth to all the articles than fiction.

Scary about the nuke water entering the Pacific Ocean ( currents / food chain )

[troutbreath]

http://www.tricitynews.com/news/218581741.html?c=y&curSection=/&curTitle=BC+News&bc09=true


I was having a hard time with who might be calling it the end of the world prophesy type thing. So I tried to verify some of the claims. I can tell you that when I lived in Poco and they put the housing development on the north side of Hyde creek way more than 840 fingerlings died. It was criminal what happened and the land developers should of been royally fined. Now it looks like just a case ofthe local hillbillies dumping crap down the storm drains again.

[arimaBOATER]

Where the population goes & industry/manufacturing marine & wildlife will get affected.
Richmond fills in the ditches & goodbye frogs.
The "strong" survive.
With wide world population exploding one wonders how much growth & pollution this planet can take.
In my 58 yrs do remember as a young kid seeing the Thompson R looking like Lake Louise like water colour.
In S Burnaby they have that big smoke stack. Company that burns garbage.
No matter the health quality controls ya can just imagine the type of fumes that exit that smoke stack.
Heard there are plans to build one in Delta.
Experts against have exposed the true type of polluted chemicals that exit & yes then will settle on the farm land & in our ground water ( & in our lungs )

But that's the world we live in.
Maybe it will come a time at age 55 we will be killed ( world wide law ) so to help save the planet.
From 50 to 55 a person goes on a 5 year party. Booze food & ladies ( eat drink & be merry for tomorrow we die )
Mind ya if one has big $$$ ( rich ) of course one can pay to live as long as ya like. ( say a million dollars a year tax to the powers that be )

Joking aside I wish one could go into a time machine & see what BC ( world ) looked like "say" 300 years ago.
Imagine the air / water quality & the marine abundance in the oceans lakes & rivers.
Salmon runs must of been spectacular !!!!!

[zabber]

Having no idea of the species, but considering the time of year, I can't help but wonder if (many of) these incidences weren't examples of "summer kill"? Apparently the globe is warming and summer kill isn't exactly a novel phenomenon... A similar instance to "July 26, 2013: Mass fish die-off in a river in Moscow, Russia" was documented on 'River Monsters,' when Mr. Wade went in search of a sturgeon in eastern Russia. The water was measured as being unseasonably warm and the salmon suffered as a result.

"July 29, 2013: Thousands of fish die “due to heat and storms” in Handsworth Park, Birmingham, England
 July 31, 2013: 3 TONS of fish die due to “lack of oxygen” in a river in Pilsen, Czech Republic"
... sounds like the heat probably did it again...

Of course, global warming isn't entirely to blame. In this case, pollution was the culprit: "July 29, 2013: Hundreds of dead fish wash ashore “due to pollution” on beach in Veracruz, Mexico." Reminds me of that cargo train that spilled into the Cheakamus a few years back...

If you believe that humans are causing global warming then maybe the mysterious link here is us; maybe we're to blame for all this.

Of course, when you put these events on paper it initially seems like a lot but think about how many other lakes there are in the world and how many fish DIDN'T die. I imagine that the events described are <0.000001% of all aquatic habitats. And, again, I can't help but wonder how rare such events really are. The article says that locals claim to have never witnessed anything like this before, but who were these locals? People who live on the coast/lakeshore year-round, or people who don't get out much? Mid-twenties or mid-eighties? Relatively new to the location or born-and-raised?

I'm not trying to diminish the importance of the article's message -- as I do believe that we are capable of destroying our environment -- but this article does strike me as a bit sensational and leaves me with more questions than answers.