millions of small fish, including anchovies, mackerel and sardines, have washed up dead in the middle of the night, Staci Gabrielli, marine co-ordinator for King Harbor Marina, on the Los Angeles County coast, has an idea about how this happened, the last time I mentioned a fish phenomenon was in mid January but it appears it has happened again - with a vengeance, Staci noted that in some places the fish were over a foot deep, prime suspect is a red tide, a naturally occurring rapid accumulation of algae in a water column, which will poison fish or starve them of oxygen,
‘All evidence points to oxygen deprivation as cause of death, there is no oil sheen, nor is there a chemical sheen,’ California Department of Fish and Game spokesman Andrew Hughan said, of course there is a reasonable explanation before we blame global warming there may just be too many of them for the local oxygen supply, in the last 100 years, the number of small fish - such as pilchards, herrings, anchovies, sprats and sardines - has more than doubled, double the number of fish but has the oxygen content of the water where they live doubled? who knows, one of natures mysteries, but I am sure scientists will let us know soon to the cause of this latest wipe out.
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