Rising Hegemon
This is rather frightening...and I imagine incredibly foul smelling.
REDONDO BEACH, Calif. - Redondo Beach awoke Tuesday to find a carpet of death atop the water. Thousands of silvery sardines floated in the King Harbor marina fin-to-fin. Hundreds of thousands more, perhaps millions, were piled on the coppery bottom, 18 inches deep in some spots.
(pic via Lucy Nicholson, Reuters)
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Looks like one of the summer alewives invasions we used to have in Chicago before salmon were introduced to cut down their numbers. Except alewives are a lot bigger.
They say all the sardines got herded into a little cove by weather and whales, and ended up dying of asphyxiation. Wonder if one of the whales was named Rush?
Petroleum hydrocarbons and dispersants. Tx, O'Blowme. Heckuva job. Tx, BritPet, ur the best.
pre-oiled.
just in time for Lent
vox
What I've been reading suggests they were driven toward land by a storm and kept inland by whales. Then they got stuck in the harbor and suffocated because there wasn't enough oxygen in the shallow harbor for that many fish.
And also that it stinks, and that this has happened at least once before, and it stunk then too.
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