Sea creatures flee oil spill, gather near shore

[annabanana]

http://www.readersupportednews.org/off-site-news-section/49-49/2218-sea-creatures-flee-oil-spill-gather-near-shore

GULF SHORES, Ala. – Dolphins and sharks are showing up in surprisingly shallow water off Florida beaches, like forest animals fleeing a fire. Mullets, crabs, rays and small fish congregate by the thousands off an Alabama pier. Birds covered in oil are crawling deep into marshes, never to be seen again.

Marine scientists studying the effects of the BP disaster are seeing some strange phenomena.

Fish and other wildlife seem to be fleeing the oil out in the Gulf and clustering in cleaner waters along the coast in a trend that some researchers see as a potentially troubling sign.

The animals' presence close to shore means their usual habitat is badly polluted, and the crowding could result in mass die-offs as fish run out of oxygen. Also, the animals could easily be devoured by predators.

(sadly, more at link)

[Uncle Joe]

1. Yes, I proposed a Dunkirk type rescue operation

on this thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8580989

Thanks for the thread, annabanana.

[DFW]

2. Worse is to come

Millions of sea animals, fish, fowl and mammal, that don't die immediately will die slow deaths from being poisoned by
eating contaminated fish--the ones that don't die from oxygen starvation first. We haven't begun to see the extent of
this damage. MOst of it will remain hidden, or be conspicuous in its absence.

[Beringia]

3. thanks for posting

It seems intuitive that fish will leave the area, and that animals that are part land, and part water will just try to survive, and not leave, like Pelicans and turtles.

[Catherina]

4. We did this. We humans did this.

I hang my head in absolute shame.

[Desertrose]

5. I am in absolsute agreement with you. I am so ahsamed of the human race.

What is wrong with us?

[Catherina]

6. *Progress*, Selfishness, thinking we're the masters of this world

instead of a part of it that needs to respect the other parts.

I'm so sick of it I'm moving as far away from *civilization* as I can soon. What we have is not life. It's death and dying. The soul replaced by an I-pod.

The tower, the 16th card.

[JHB]

7. My uncle got an e-mail from a friend seeing the same thing...

Quoting:

This came from a friend who is a year-round resident of Venice.
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They saw a tiger shark close to the Nokomis Beach and several other
deep sea sharks in the area.
This is just the beginning of our oil troubles.