To: Horgad who wrote (425378 ) 12/12/2013 12:52:08 PM From: Broken_Clock 1 RecommendationRecommended By
Respond to Is it like animals running from a forest fire(Fukushima radiation plume)? I was talking to old friends while in SB county a few months ago and they were blown away by the halibut fishing off Gaviota. They've been fishing there 45 years and have never seen such enormous quantities of fish. They were showing me pictures of their catches and it was unbelievable. So many halibut they were just throwing lines in and getting hit. Coming in with hundreds of pounds of halibut in a 14' skiff.======== Miguel Marquez, CNN : A feeding frenzy along the California coast — like none ever recorded.Katherine Whitaker, marine researcher : In talking to the old timers, the fishermen who have been out here for 60 years, they’ve never seen anything like this.Marquez : Monterey Bay now a massive soup bowl, as the locals call it. Feasting humpback whales that should have gone south months ago. What would keep whales like this here?Whitaker : We’re talking about miles and miles of anchovies, mountains deep.Marquez : And it’s not just whales, there are sea lions in droves, even killer whales. [...]Jim Covel, Monterey Bay Aquarium : One of my favorite sayings right now is we may be experiencing ‘global weirding’.Marquez : The Pacific recently has seen its fair share of weird. An invasion of humboldts [squid] up and down the California coast. Sea lions calves this year dying off in worrying numbers. And in recent weeks disturbingly, sea stars from Alaska to San Diego wasting away, literally melting. [...] Watch the CNN broadcast here CBS News: 100s of whales in bay on California coast; It’s never been like this, we just can’t even believe it — Experts: We just aren’t sure what’s going on; “A once-in-a-lifetime chance… unheard of, it’s unbelievable, nobody’s seen this” (VIDEO) November 30, 2013 NYTimes: Unprecedented concentration of sea creatures near shore in California; Experts baffled, longtime residents astounded — Biologist: “It’s a very strange year… The $64,000 question is why?” — Similar to ‘extraordinary’ events seen recently along Canada’s Pacific coast? (VIDEO) November 25, 2013 Whale Expert near Vancouver: In 30 years I’ve never ever seen this kind of behavior, “They must sense this is a safe place to be” — Captain: I’ve never seen anything like it in 50 years on Pacific — “One even placed its head on the boat” (VIDEO) November 30, 2013 Physician: The high radiation doses, the plume from Fukushima crossing ocean, likely to hit coast of Canada and Northwestern US in early 2014 — California impacted later in year — People don’t know how to stop situation at plant, it’s a global public health catastrophe (AUDIO) October 29, 2013 Head researcher “is sounding the alarm” over striking changes in killer whales off Canada and Alaska since 2011 — “Unusually high mortality rate” and “odd behavior” — “Experts fear something’s wrong with the environment” (VIDEO) October 25, 2013
