Baby dolphin deaths spike on Gulf Coast

[cory777]

Source: Sun Herald

GULFPORT -- Baby dolphins, some barely three feet in length, are washing up along the Mississippi and Alabama coastlines at 10 times the normal rate of stillborn and infant deaths, researchers are finding.

The Sun Herald has learned that 17 young dolphins, either aborted before they reached maturity or dead soon after birth, have been collected along the shorelines.

The Institute of Marine Mammal Studies is doing necropsies, animal autopsies, on two of the babies now.

Moby Solangi, director of the institute, called the numbers an anomaly and told the Sun Herald that they are significant, especially in light of the BP oil spill throughout the spring and summer last year. Millions of barrels of crude oil containing toxins and carcinogens spewed into the Gulf of Mexico. Oil worked its way into the Mississippi and Chandeleur sounds and other bays and shallow waters where dolphins breed and give birth.





Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2011/02/20/2881134/baby-dolphin-deaths-spike-on-gulf.html?storylink=addthis

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[plumbob]

1. Cain't be. The gummint and BP both assure me that all the pollution

is gone.

Now who you gonna believe - the gummint and BP or your lying eyes?!

[Bluebear]

6. And Obama said gulf seafood is absolutely safe to eat.

No worries.

[MBS]

2. Heartbreaking.

And, sadly, no surprise.
I'm sure this is significant, and quite believably related to the oil spill. This is painful even to read about.:(

[polichick]

4. You posted exactly what I was thinking - so heartbreaking! nt

[Angry Dragon]

3. Gee, maybe it was the dispersant that the EPA told bp

to stop spraying
The whole Ecocide was handled so poorly that bp and government officials should be held responsible
and go after their personal monies

[bahrbearian]

5. After the Microbes ate all the oil, they had to eat sum-tin.

[Ilsa]

7. That state GOP representative from Georgia should be put in

Charge of investigating why the Gulf of Mexico dolphins are having miscarriages. (there is a thread about a rep in GA that wants every miscarriage investigated for abortion)

Okay, seriously, this is big news. Dolphins are mammals and it is scary that the gulf is unable to support reproduction. I live near the gulf and I'm not convinced that its seafood is safe to consume.

[smiley]

8. but, but, but...

this happens all the time.:sarcasm:

[goforit]

9. Hello all Oil companies!!! Take note!!! Look at Egypt!!!!

[IGoToDU]

10. no words

:scared: :cry:

[midnight]

11. This is awful....