January 5, 2011 7:46 PM

Two Million Dead Fish Appear in Chesapeake Bay

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The estimated two million dead fish found floating in the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland recently are not another sign of the apocalypse, but were instead probably killed by the cold weather, officials told The Baltimore Sun.

Water quality was also ruled out as a possible culprit for the mass die-off of mostly spot and some croaker fish, the Sun reports.

Spot fish are notorious for being vulnerable to the cold, and large winter kills of spot have been documented in Maryland at least twice before, a Maryland Department of the Environment spokeswoman told the Sun, with about 15 million dying in early 1976 and a smaller number in 1980.

The mass Chesapeake fish die-off joins a growing list of reports from around the globe of mysterious fish and bird deaths.

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Brazilian authorities also reported recently that fishermen found several tons of dead fish, sardines mostly, near the port of Paranagua, reports the website Mediaite. Authorities there are investigating the reason for the deaths.

In New Zealand, Fisheries officials are investigating the death of hundreds of snapper near Coromandel Peninsula beaches, reports the daily New Zealand Herald. Beachgoers found the fish - many with their eyes missing - dead on the sand.

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by mark_p93561 January 10, 2011 1:36 PM EST
The faith that God has purified All things, has sent our neg. faith and reality we know about the air into the birds. The pure waters are taking the neg faith we put there has gone into the fish. All things are pure now. The only defilement is in mankinds conscience now because they think the old reality is still truth. Reality has changed and mankind needs to accept this change of Jesus Christ being in All things Eternally. Renew your mind to the truth. The world isn't defiled anymore, just your conscience is. Read your bible. Titus 1:15-16 and 1 John Ch. 3
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by MGuzman339 January 8, 2011 5:41 PM EST
I personally think this is linked to the BP oil spill that just happened a few months ago. It has only been four months since the spill was capped. We were warned that we would have effects for months or even years. If the oil traveled mainly under water there is no telling how far the oil has reached. The spill could very likely be the cause of the strange deaths happening to birds and fish.
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by WeHappyFew January 8, 2011 9:58 AM EST
Tea Baggers,

He carried me away in spirit into the wilderness and I a woman sit upon on a scarlet coloured beast full of names of blasphemy having seven heads and ten horns ............... A woman gets the Republican Party nomination

And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour..............Colours or the Church and Republican Party
I saw the woman drunk on the blood of the saints and with blood of the martyrs of jesus. When I saw her I wondered in great admiration............................ Palin

And the woman was decked with gold and precious stones and pearls a golden cup full in her hand of abominations and the filth of her fornication.................I guess G*d doesn't approve of her money spinning and books.

And here is the mind which hath wisdom. Seven heads are the seven mountains on which the woman sits.........
Denali national park

And the woman that saw that great city which reigneth over the kings of the earth.......... Washington
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by WeHappyFew January 8, 2011 9:59 AM EST
missed out the word saw in the first sentence.
by noloyalisti January 7, 2011 8:05 PM EST
Part of the theory of global warming is that weather will become more extreme and variable. I expect to see these kinds of things more and more frequently. Of course the idiot corporate pawn Republicans will just deny any scientific data and claim that God has a plan.
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by noloyalisti January 7, 2011 4:00 PM EST
The fish and birds are committing suicide because they know the global climate change deniers took control of the money. They believe in strong government because that is what keep the giant corporations from killing them all. Oops too late.

In 2 years there won't be one even dumb American who will admit voting for the Republicans.
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by YrWrongAgain January 7, 2011 5:42 PM EST
You are a demented soul. Only I don't believe in souls, so I guess that leaves you with nothing.
by noloyalisti January 7, 2011 3:10 PM EST
The effects of man made global climate change is really kicking in fast. Keep denying it Republicans.
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by inketolstoy January 7, 2011 3:59 PM EST
Global climate change. Also called spring, winter, summer and fall in previous, less enlightened generations.
by Riverjump January 7, 2011 1:10 PM EST
Some of the fish were "croakers"? Really?
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by WeHappyFew January 7, 2011 12:52 PM EST
'Good News' mongers, If your G*d is really that petty, capricious and vindictive then the worlds better off dead.
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by rf35 January 7, 2011 11:18 AM EST
Global warming, global warming, global warming. The grant-hungry "scientists" screech about global warming at the drop of a hat these days. This kind of thing happened long before man arrived on the scene to start burning everything that would ignite and it will keep on happening long after we have bred ourselves into extinction. Global warming (real or imagined, natural or manmade) has nothing to do with this. IDK, maybe the Mayans did predict the end of the world in 2012, though the experts say its only significance is that their calendar will be reset. Maybe 2012 is when the population reaches critical mass and implodes.
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by curse914 January 7, 2011 8:47 PM EST
Yes, you have to look into prehistory for this sort of extinction event. Stick to reading the bible.
by -Kuha- January 6, 2011 1:57 PM EST
This happens since FOREVER every freaking year. Why suddenly the news are giving it so much weight? They didn't have any other thing to talk about?

Now excuse while I laugh at the paranoia.
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