Baby Dolphins Found Dead on Gulf Coast, ABC News, February 23, 2011:
A tide of dead infant dolphins has washed ashore along a 100-mile stretch of the Alabama and Mississippi coastlines in the past two weeks, and marine experts today said they believe last summer's Gulf oil spill may be to blame. ...
Moby Solangi, the head of the Mississippi based Institute for Marine Mammal Research, told ABC News. ... "[I]n my 30 years of studying dolphins I have never seen anything like this. This is highly unusual."
The relation between the oil spill and the dolphin deaths could be direct or indirect. The dolphin mothers may have ingested heavy metals in the oil or the chemicals used to disperse the oil, Solangi said. Or the oil eating bacteria that flourished during the summer may have caused an imbalance in the animals' guts, causing bacterial infections that may have caused the mothers to abort the calves.
Read the report here.
And dolphins eat jellyfish ... Jellyfish East Coast of Florida Peninsula State Park *PICS*
... http://beforeitsnews.com/story/438/996/Jellyfish_East_Coast_of_Florida_Peninsula_State_Park_PICS.html ... "Everything around them was polluted and toxic !"
18 February 2011
Blue-green algae affecting reproductive health
by Kate Melville
Algal blooms that occur in rivers and waterways have been found to produce a previously unrecognized estrogen-like compound that adversely affects fish, plants and humans by disrupting the normal activity of reproductive hormones.
University of Tennessee researchers, led by biotechnologist Theodore Henry, compared groups of larval zebrafish exposed to blue-green algae (Microcystis) cells with those exposed to only the well-studied toxin they produce.
They found that only the fish in contact with the blue-green algal cells tested positive for a well known estrogenic biomarker....
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/20110117194706data_trunc_sys.shtml
That's so sad. It's really unfortunate that nature is continuing to suffer because of what we're doing to the earth. Was there any confirmation about what actually caused all the deaths?
Hormone,
It is ongoing, dead critters every day. It is just about
impossible that anything but Oil and Corexit did this to the
animals and fish. If you go back through the archives on this
site, you will see anecdotes of fishermen sickened to death,
clean-up workers denied protective gear as they poisoned
themselves. This is also ongoing today.
Little kids playing in the scummy water, as their idiot parents
watch.
These other articles are to take away responsibility of oil or dispersant's as problem I believe, $$$ from BP paid shills science, I believe it is the "disruptor's in the dispersant's" that is causing the baby dolphin deaths !
They play on Blackened beaches of dead and dieing ! http://beforeitsnews.com/story/136/465/
The dolphin mothers may have ingested heavy metals in the oil or the chemicals used to disperse the oil, Solangi said. Or the oil eating bacteria that flourished during the summer may have caused an imbalance in the animals’ guts,
Algal blooms that occur in rivers and waterways have been found to produce a previously unrecognized estrogen-like compound that adversely affects fish, plants and humans by disrupting the normal activity of reproductive hormones.
taking some soil and sharing the joy seems fair. As long as its not violating any laws, of course. But it is clean–right?
If you go back through the archives on this
site, you will see anecdotes of fishermen sickened to death,
clean-up workers denied protective gear as they poisoned
themselves. This is also ongoing today.
The use of chemical dispersants during the oil spill coupled with the ultraviolet exposure in the Gulf may have increased the formation of OPAHs beyond expected levels.and it is hypothesized that the same will be true in water, said Anderson.