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Alarming West Coast Sardine Crash Likely Radiating Through Ecosystem — Experts Warn Marine Mammals and Seabirds are Starving, May Suffer for Years to Come — Boats Return Without a Single Fish — Monterey Bay: Hard to Resist the Idea that Humpback Whales are Trying to tell us Something

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More and more Earth Shattering news is appearing daily regarding the Fukushima disaster that goes completely ignored on all Talmud Vision Owned News Outlets. The evidence is over-whelming and hardly a peep about it is mentioned on the Idiot Box.
Scary - The commercial sardine fishery, with a wholesale value of about $32 million, has mysteriously collapsed on the west coast of B.C. The seine fleet has been unable to find a single fish.

Post By LedaOhio9 | Beforeitsnews

28 Signs the Pacific is being Fried with Fukushima radiation

(The List)
1. Polar bears, seals and walruses along the Alaska coastline are suffering fromfur loss and open sores…
2. There is an epidemic of sea lion deaths along the California coastline…
3. Along the Pacific coast of Canada and the Alaska coastline, the population of sockeye salmon is at a historic low. Many are blaming Fukushima.
4. Something is causing fish all along the west coast of Canada to bleed from their gills, bellies and eyeballs.
5. A vast field of radioactive debris from Fukushima that is approximately the size of California has crossed the Pacific Ocean and is starting to collide with the west coast.
6. It is being projected that the radioactivity of coastal waters off the U.S. west coast could double over the next five to six years.
7. Experts have found very high levels of cesium-137 in plankton living in the waters of the Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and the west coast.
8. One test in California found that 15 out of 15 bluefin tuna were contaminated with radiation from Fukushima.
9. Back in 2012, the Vancouver Sun reported that cesium-137 was being found in a very high percentage of the fish that Japan was selling to Canada…
10. Canadian authorities are finding extremely high levels of nuclear radiation in certain fish samples…
11. Some experts believe that we could see very high levels of cancer along the west coast just from people eating contaminated fish…
12. BBC News recently reported that radiation levels around Fukushima are “18 times higher” than previously believed.
13. An EU-funded study concluded that Fukushima released up to 210 quadrillion becquerels of cesium-137 into the atmosphere.
14. Atmospheric radiation from Fukushima reached the west coast of the United States within a few days back in 2011.
15. At this point, 300 tons of contaminated water is pouring into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day.
16. A senior researcher of marine chemistry at the Japan Meteorological Agency’s Meteorological Research Institute says that “30 billion becquerels of radioactive cesium and 30 billion becquerels of radioactive strontium” are being released into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima every single day.
17. According to Tepco, a total of somewhere between 20 trillion and 40 trillion becquerels of radioactive tritium have gotten into the Pacific Ocean since the Fukushima disaster first began.
18. According to a professor at Tokyo University, 3 gigabecquerels of cesium-137 are flowing into the port at Fukushima Daiichi every single day.
19. It has been estimated that up to 100 times as much nuclear radiation has been released into the ocean from Fukushima than was released during the entire Chernobyl disaster.
20. One recent study concluded that a very large plume of cesium-137 from the Fukushima disaster will start flowing into U.S. coastal waters early next year…
21. It is being projected that significant levels of cesium-137 will reach every corner of the Pacific Ocean by the year 2020.
22. It is being projected that the entire Pacific Ocean will soon “have cesium levels 5 to 10 times higher” than what we witnessed during the era of heavy atomic bomb testing in the Pacific many decades ago.
23. The immense amounts of nuclear radiation getting into the water in the Pacific Ocean has caused environmental activist Joe Martino to issue the following warning…
24. The Iodine-131, Cesium-137 and Strontium-90 that are constantly coming from Fukushima are going to affect the health of those living the the northern hemisphere for a very, very long time.
25. According to a recent Planet Infowars report, the California coastline is being transformed into “a dead zone”…
26. A study conducted last year came to the conclusion that radiation from the Fukushima nuclear disaster could negatively affect human life along the west coast of North America from Mexico to Alaska “for decades”.
27. According to the Wall Street Journal, it is being projected that the cleanup of Fukushima could take up to 40 years to complete.
28. Yale Professor Charles Perrow is warning that if the cleanup of Fukushima is not handled with 100% precision that humanity could be threatened “for thousands of years”…


ENE News reports the following..

{Snip}
Captain Corbin Hanson, Southern California, Jan. 5, 2014: [He was] growing more desperate as the night wore on. After 12 hours and $1,000 worth of fuel, [they] returned to port without a single fish. “Tonight’s pretty reflective of how things have been going [...] Not very well.” [...] If his crew catches sardines these days, they are larger, older fish [...] Largely absent are the small and valuable young fish [...] the voice of another boat captain lamented over the radio, “I haven’t seen a scratch.” [...] By daybreak, Hanson was piloting the hulking boat back to the docks with nothing in its holds.

  • West Coast sardine crash could radiate throughout ecosystem
  • [T]he biggest sardine crash in generations
  • [S]cientists say the effects are probably radiating throughout the ecosystem, starving brown pelicans, sea lions and other predators
  • [E]xperts warn the West Coast’s marine mammals, seabirds and fishermen could suffer for years
  • The reason for the drop is unclear
  • [T]he decline is the steepest since the collapse of the sardine fishery in the mid-20th century
  • [T]heir numbers are projected to keep sliding
  • [T]he crash is raising alarm
  • [T]here is evidence some ocean predators are starving without sardines
  • Scarcity of prey is the leading theory behind the 1,600 malnourished sea lion pups that washed up along beaches from Santa Barbara to San Diego in early 2013, said Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist at the National Marine Fisheries Service
  • Biologists also suspect the drop is hurting brown pelicans [which] have shown signs of starvation and have largely failed to breed or rear chicks there since 2010
  • Normally, pelicans and sea lions would adapt by instead gobbling up anchovies [...] aside from an unusual boom in Monterey Bay, anchovy numbers are depressed too

READ FULL DISHEARTENING ENE ARTICLE HERE


My heart aches realizing the total devastation TPTB have done to our beautiful planet and it is clear they could give a Rat’s Arse what they kill, pollute, and destroy for generations to come.

Reading such horrific news daily that is never covered on TV really stresses me out.. Because so many are detached from reality and only believe “IT” if it is said to them from TV. It is as if they have been brain washed and even mentioning of the Words “Conspiracy Theory” gets you ridiculed. MSM has deliberately created such a negative stigma to those words that you are immediately labeled a Tin-Foil Hat loon.
If only we had actual Journalism.. *SIGH*

How can so many people forget the many “Once Theories” that are now Documented FACT?


Re-Posted w/Permission (The Vancouver Sun)
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A $32-million commercial fishery has inexplicably and completely collapsed this year on the B.C. coast.

The sardine seine fleet has gone home after failing to catch a single fish. And the commercial disappearance of the small schooling fish is having repercussions all the way up the food chain to threatened humpback whales.

Jim Darling, a Tofino-based whale biologist with the Pacific Wildlife Foundation, said in an interview Monday that humpbacks typically number in the hundreds near the west coast of Vancouver Island in summer. They were observed only sporadically this year, including by the commercial whale-watching industry.

“Humpbacks are telling us that something has changed,” he said. “Ocean systems are so complex, it’s really hard to know what it means. For one year, I don’t think there’s any reason to be alarmed, but there is certainly reason to be curious.”

Humpbacks instead were observed farther offshore, possibly feeding on alternative food sources such as herring, sandlance, anchovies, or krill, but not in the numbers observed near shore in recent years.

The sardine, also known as pilchard, has a uniquely fascinating history.

Sardines supported a major fishery on the B.C. coast in the mid-1920s to mid-1940s that averaged 40,000 tonnes a year.

Then the fish mysteriously disappeared — for decades — until the first one was observed again in 1992 during a federal science-based fishery at Barkley Sound on the west coast of Vancouver Island.

With the re-emergence of the sardines came the humpbacks, around 1995, becoming so numerous in coastal waters off Vancouver Island that they supplanted grey whales as the star attraction of the whale-watching industry.

Peter Schultze, a senior guide and driver with Ocean Outfitters, said humpbacks are normally found seven to 10 kilometres or closer to shore, but this year were about 18 to 32 kilometres out. That meant for more travel time and fuel burned and less time with the humpbacks, if they were observed at all. “There were a lot of days where people got skunked.”

Overfishing had long been blamed for the disappearance of sardines from B.C. waters. But scientists today attribute the overriding cause to changes in ocean conditions that proved unfavourable to sardines.

B.C. started commercial fishing for sardines in 2002, and in 2013 had an allowable catch of about 25,000 tonnes, which compares with a total estimated population of 659,000 tonnes.

“This year was unexpected,” said Lisa Mijacika, a resource manager with Fisheries and Oceans Canada in Vancouver, noting fishing did take place in California and Oregon. “They are a migratory fish heavily influenced by ocean conditions.”

Scientists from Canada, the U.S., and Mexico will meet in December to try to find answers to the sardine’s movements.

There are now 50 B.C. commercial sardine licences, half held by First Nations.

The fishery normally operates from July to November, but not this year.

“They’ve given up looking, pulled the plug,” confirmed Lorne Clayton, executive-director of the Canadian Pacific Sardine Association. “It certainly was disappointing. It’s cost them time, fuel, and crew to go out and look, with no compensation.”

While seiners fishing close to the surface got skunked, he noted that commercial hake fishermen with trawl nets at depths of 200 to 350 metres reported catching hake “filled with sardines,” Clayton said.

“I think they didn’t come to the surface this year. Right now, it’s all speculation.”

Darling said that doesn’t explain the sudden change in humpback behaviour off the island. “If sardines were there in any number, you’d think the whales would have figured that out,” he said. “I don’t think anyone really has a bead on what’s going on.”

Clayton said the B.C. sardine fishery has a wholesale value of about $32 million, with the fish going into the canned market, as well as for reduction and oil. The loss of the fishery this year could have repercussions for next.

“Not only does it affect their livelihood but it puts a hole in the marketplace,” he said. Even if sardines come back next season, “you may have to claw your way back into the marketplace.”

Clayton said that ocean temperatures tides, plankton and light are all factors that could be influencing the sardines.

“In a given year, fishermen have to search them out to go fishing. They don’t just arrive at your boat.”

He noted that the sardine fishery also collapsed this year in South Africa. “They disappeared entirely with no evidence at all.”

Darling said society should question whether the greater value of sardines is as prey for natural predators in the ocean, including the humpbacks upon which the whale-watching industry depends so heavily.

“Would it not make sense to leave the fish that are driving the whole system and supporting virtually everything? There are some important questions to be asked about the sardine fishery.”

 



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    • muckracker1

      You worked a lot on this one Leda. Good job :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

      • LedaOhio9

        Thank you very much dear.. Please make all checks payable to Leda or cash donation.

        *giggle*

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        • Nicole Morgan (Investigative Reporter)

          Indeed, well done, Leda!

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    • equal eyes

      Thank you Leda, heartbreaking, but great info.

      Thank you

      • muckracker1

        OK Bukeye” doan let alla this praise go to ur head :wink:

        • LedaOhio9

          <– Curtseys

          You may kiss the ring…

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        • Nicole Morgan (Investigative Reporter)

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