Millions of fish found dead on California coast — Area’s 3rd major fish kill in 2 weeks — Unidentified ‘goo’ floating nearby; Police clear out beach, call health officials to investigate (VIDEO)
ENENews.com
August 1st, 2014
NBC Bay Area, July 31, 2014 (emphasis added): Santa Cruz has declared an emergency situation in its harbor. The problem? Dead fish. Tons of them. Hundreds of thousands of dead anchovies are floating to the surface of the harbor. […] Officials say the same thing happened last year, but not to this level. According to Hayes, this is the worst fish kill in Santa Cruz since the 1980s. […] A couple of weeks ago, thousands of dead gray and white fish washed up on the sand of Manresa State Beach in Aptos. California Fish and Wildlife still don’t know exactly how they got there […]
KSBW, July 31, 2014: First it was white croakers, then sardines, today, thousands upon thousands of dead anchovies turned up in the Santa Cruz harbor. The latest marine phenomena on the Monterey Bay.
Santa Cruz Sentinel, July 31, 2014: “It’s kind of a natural occurrence that happens from time to time,” said John Haynes, acting harbormaster. […] The die-off is the third in three weeks. On July 18, thousands of white croakers washed up on Manresa State Beach […] On July 25, scores of dead anchovies washed onto the beach at Capitola […] there have been four massive anchovy kills in harbor history: 1964, 1974, 1980 and 1984.
ABC 7, July 31, 2014: For the second year in a row, Santa Cruz Harbor has been inundated by dead anchovies […] This is the fifth mass anchovy die-off in 50 years in Santa Cruz. The most recent was last October […] >> Watch report here
KSBW, July 31, 2014: Millions of anchovies died overnight in the Santa Cruz yacht harbor […] It was the third major fish kill in Santa Cruz County this month, following a white croaker die off at Manresa State Beach in La Selva Beach, and sardine die off at New Brighton Beach in Capitola. […] Cleanup volunteers said, “Well it happened again folks. Millions of dead anchovies overnight. It’s not Fukushima”
KSBW, July 28, 2014: Another fish kill, this time along Capitola […] State Fish & Wildlife aren’t 100% sure what caused this latest fish kill but they’re certain it wasn’t natural. […] A similar incident happened just ten days ago, when hundreds of thousands of white croaker fish washed up on Manresa State Beach. They’re likely unrelated. NOAA: “An open ocean issue shouldn’t cause that kind of a problem so we don’t know of any specific spill, any specfic release of any chemicals that would have caused it” […] Last Friday afternoon [Capitola Beach] was closed for two hours. A gooey substance was found floating in the water and health officials were contacted. […] Samples of the substance were taken but health officials have not identified what that ‘gooey’ substance was other than it didn’t pose a threat to public health.
KION, July 26, 2014: Sardines and a paste-like substance shut [Capitola beach] down. […] “We had been here so many times before and never seen them like that before,” [mother Kim Legue] said. […] Capitola police cleared the beach […] and called Santa Cruz County Environmental Health to investigate […] officials said [the paste] is something new. […] “What was found was a like a white, doughy-type substance. It’s unknown what the substance is at this point,” said Sgt. Cliff Sloma. […] This comes a week after a similar scene at Manresa State Beach where thousands of dead fish washed up. […] Health investigators said the paste-like substance is most likely something naturally created.
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