Dead Fish Washing Up on Shore
@DeborahDiane (40843)
Laguna Woods, California
May 18, 2016 11:47pm CST
This week, Orange County, California has seen hundreds of thousands of dead jellyfish and tiny crabs that look like lobsters wash up on shore.
This also happened last year.
Authorities insist that it is because of global warming and El Nino ... but I am suspicious. I haven't seen any starfish in our local tide pools in two or three years, either.
Some people point to the fact that radioactive water is continuing to spill from the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan ... and has been spilling from it for several years, since the earthquake and tsunami that did so much damage. Although authorities insist that the radioactive water is not causing our dead fish ... I still wonder.
What do you think?
12 people like this
10 responses
@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
20 May 16
I think if we keep treating the ocean like a cesspool, that is what it will become. Hate this. 
2 people like this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
21 May 16
@ElizabethWallace - Yes, ruining the oceans will hurt life for all of us, eventually.
1 person likes this
@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
21 May 16
@DeborahDiane It reminds me of those a areas where people have killed rivers. Nothing will live in them. It is very hard to bring them back. Wouldn't it be easier not to pollute them in the first place? Greed again, I think.
1 person likes this
@ElizabethWallace (12069)
• United States
21 May 16
@DeborahDiane I don't know why dumping is legal. We know that it will end up killing us all.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
20 May 16
@JudyEv - I agree with you completely. I am very reluctant to implicitly believe the authorities because I think they always want to dismiss all the fish kills as "natural causes" without investigating further. I'm sure there are other contributing factors that they do not want to discuss.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
25 May 16
@JudyEv - I think that is interesting that they were denying that Skylab cam down near you, when you could hear it. I think a lot of things happen and the government doesn't tell us. It makes me think they take us all for fools.
1 person likes this
@JudyEv (381760)
• Rockingham, Australia
23 May 16
@DeborahDiane When Skylab came down in outback WA, the authorities were denying that the space craft was anywhere in the area. But we could hear it crashing and banging overhead as it re-entered the atmosphere.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
20 May 16
@Juliaacv - I agree that it is very sad what we are doing to our world without any regard for all living things. I wonder if our great-grandchildren will look back on our generation and think we must have been really ignorant and naive to not notice the signs that something is wrong.
1 person likes this
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
21 May 16
i saw a clip'f those poor lil crabs'n the national news this past week - most sad indeed. i don't reckon 'tis from japan's catastrophe - but'n accumulation'f the worlds garbage. if'n one looks 'pon past written history 'n that which's been found through scientist diggin' 'round, such phenom's 've been occurrin' fer centuries.
heck, once 'pon a time, these high plains i hang my hat't was swamp land 'n alaska 'twas a tropical forest.
not sayin' that mankind's actions (o'er fishin' 'n depletin' natural resources 'mong other schtuff) aint'd'n impact, but folks tend to ferget that this planet's e'er changin'.
1 person likes this
@crazyhorseladycx (39503)
• United States
22 May 16
@DeborahDiane i agree, hon. look 't the billions'f tons'f "debris" that gets tossed into the oceans from natural disasters alone. mother nature's got her hands quite full tryin' to keep'p with't all 'n puttin' schtuff back'n balance best she can.
some folks seem to care more 'bout what they get outta 't all, not the impact'n the planet :( if'n they can make a buck'n get by with such behavior, such'll continue.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
23 May 16
@crazyhorseladycx - I agree that greed is behind a lot of the earth's pollution, although some of it occurs naturally, as well. Think how much easier things would be for Mother Nature if we were not contributing so much to the problem!
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
22 May 16
Yes, this planet changes naturally, but that is still no reason to dump trash in the oceans, pollute the air we breath, let chemicals flow into the rivers or damage it in countless other ways. When people deny the human impact on climate change, many of them (not you) want to ignore the countless ways in which we are destroying our natural home.
1 person likes this
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
19 May 16
I think that is all due to global warming which is taking a toll in many ways on our environment.
2 people like this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
20 May 16
@JamesHxstatic - Yes, I am afraid that global warming is taking a toll in many ways on our environment. It is very sad.
1 person likes this
@JamesHxstatic (29410)
• Eugene, Oregon
20 May 16
@DeborahDiane Truly, it is and so little is being done about it.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
21 May 16
@JamesHxstatic - I agree ... it is very discouraging to know that so little is being done to clean up our oceans.
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
20 May 16
@just4him - I have also wondered why authorities do not want people to know the full truth. While I accept that a warmer ocean has contributed to the problem, I'm sure there are other problems, too, and they don't seem to want to recognize it.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
21 May 16
@just4him - Yes, I wish I knew exactly what was going on. No one seems to be telling the public the truth, though.
1 person likes this
@just4him (323168)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
20 May 16
@DeborahDiane Now would be a good time to be a fly on a wall somewhere to find out exactly what is going on.
1 person likes this
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
25 May 16
Oh no! I had not heard about this! I've heard of a bunch of fish and such washing up on the shores of other places (I think one place was somewhere in Florida?) but I didn't know about it happening in OC. I know water creatures are sensitive to water temperatures (on a small scale, we found out through our dying goldfish in this house), but yah, I suspect there is more to it than just global warming or El Nino too. It's very odd how other animals are also dying in mass numbers at the same time.
1 person likes this
@much2say (57760)
• Los Angeles, California
25 May 16
@DeborahDiane And if it is because of man-made reasons, that's very, very sad. How sad to think "we" are doing this to our own planet. 
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
25 May 16
Yes, it seems to me that there are massive numbers of fish dying around the world. I know this sometimes happens naturally, but you would think that scientists would try to at least figure out what is causing it and if sometimes they are dying because of man-made reasons.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
28 May 16
@much2say - Yes, the damage we are doing to this planet is very sad.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
20 May 16
@jstory07 - I agree that it is sad that man is destroying our planet and no one seems to care. No one seems to even want to investigate what is happening.
@Tampa_girl7 (54714)
• United States
20 May 16
You may be onto something. The radiation from Chernobyl made it all the way here. It rained, got on the grass, the cows ate it and it was found in the Hershey Candies made with the cows milk.
1 person likes this
@DeborahDiane (40843)
• Laguna Woods, California
21 May 16
Wow! I had not idea that the radiation from Chernobyl made it to the U.S. ... but, of course, it makes sense. The earth makes a complete circle every 24 hours and that radiation hung in the air for months.
