Mass Animal Deaths from September to November 2012

Mass Animal Deaths from September to November 2012

(Oct 31) City workers on Tuesday began the smelly task of removing at least 15,000 fish found dead on Lake Madeline in Galveston, Texas. (Source)

(Oct 31) More than 125,000 laying hens have been culled at a farm in Northern Ireland following the discovery of salmonella gallinarum. (Source)

(Oct 31) Millions of these little fish, all dead, in a great strand, all along the Illawong Beach in Australia. (Source)

(Oct 31) Over 33,000 birds the Central Poultry Development Organisation in Bangalore, India, will now be culled to prevent the spread of the highly pathogenic avian influenza (H5N1). (Source) (Oct 26) About 3,600 Turkeys have died of avian influenza (H5N1) in Bangalore, India. (Source) (Oct 15) Authorities in Bhaktapur’s Bode in Nepal have culled more than 1500 chickens following a suspected outbreak of bird flu. (Source)

(Oct 28) Shoals of fish were found some dead, some alive, along the east coast of India. They were predominantly sardines and skip jack tunas, with big fish like eel and mullet (gal maalu) also in significant quantities. (Source)

(Oct 26) Dozens of whales beached themselves and died on North Andaman Island in the Bay of Bengal in India this week, the first time that such a large number of whales have died in the area. (Source)

(Oct 26) A fish kill at the Iowa Great Lakes is still a mystery for environmental officials. It’s primarily happening on the lower chain of lakes, affecting mostly transparent and yellow bass. File Photo (Source)
(Oct 26) The DNR is investigating a fish kill in Prairie Creek just west of Blairstown in Benton County, Iowa. (Source)

Deer deaths continue to rise due to epizootic hemorrhagic disease or EHD across the Country.

(Oct 25) Michigan – More than 11,000 deer, up from 900 last month, have been reported dead of EHD. (Source)
(Oct 24) Missouri – There were more than 5,000 cases as of Oct 10. (Source)
(Oct 9) Nebraska – Over 4,768 reported deaths attributed to the disease in the past few weeks. (Source)
(Oct 7) North Carolina – Hundreds of deer have died of EHD but those are just the reported cases — the number of deaths could be in the thousands. (Source)
(Oct 5) Illinois -  2,043 reported deaths. (Source)

(Oct 24) A dead whale, estimated to be about 54 feet long, lied sprawled across the beachfront in Rockport, Massachusetts. (Source)

(Oct 23) Foshan, Guangdong, China

(Oct 23) Scallops suffer massive die-Off in New York. (Source)

(Oct 23) The mass deaths of fish in some coastal areas of Sri Lanka were found to be due to natural causes – the lack of oxygen in water, increase of temperature of sea water due to monsoons and decay of plankton they eat. File Photo (Source)

(Oct 22) There’s a fish kill involving “tens of thousands” of gizzard shad on the shore of Oneida Lake in Bridgeport, Central New York. (Source)

(Oct 21) A 14-metre-long male whale, which has been dead for at least 10 days and a dead dugong (a relative of the manatee), measuring two metre long, were found washed ashore in the Vadakadu and Panaikulam seashore, respectively, off the Palk Strait in Rameswaram in India. (Source) (Oct 11) An injured big whale, which later died, was seen floating at Balipatha near the Devi river mouth in India. (Source)

(Oct 21) An entire shipment of Australian sheep stranded in the Pakistani port city of Karachi has been culled after authorities said the flock of 28,600 carried disease. (Source) (Oct 9) Over 400 cows and goats have died due to some unknown disease in Assam, India. (Source)

(Oct 19) A 25-foot whale washed up on More Mesa Beach on Friday, and the Santa Barbara County Public Health Department in California plans to have it towed out to sea this weekend. (Source)

(Oct 19) Dead doves have been popping up all across the Permian Basin in Texas. The trend of sick or dead doves goes back to early August. The birds were found in Midland, Odessa, Big Spring and other surrounding areas. Scientists found the cause to be a virus in the group of avian paramyxovirues. (Source)

(Oct 19) Environmental experts in Namibia are puzzled after finding a high number of flamingos and avocets in the Walvis Lagoon Bayer dead. For about four weeks, dead birds are picked up by residents almost daily. Such a phenomenon has not happened here before. (Source)

(Oct 19) Cases of bird flu have been reported in Dien Bien, Vietnam. Since the outbreak, authorities have detected and culled more than 1,000 sick livestock in the commune. File Photo (Source)

(Oct 18) Nearly 300 dead or dying loons and other fish-eating birds are found on the beaches of northwestern Michigan’s Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore the past few days — all victims of botulism that has scientists concerned about the changing ecology of the Great Lakes. (Source)

(Oct 17) Pakistan’s disaster relief agency estimates that weeks of monsoon flooding have killed 455 people and affected more than five million others. Officials said every section of the country has been affected over the past five weeks. The southwestern province of Baluchistan suffered the most loss to livestock, with nearly 7,000 cattle killed. File Photo (Source) In Sualkuchi, India, nearly 500 to 600 cattle have been affected by disease after the second wave of floods. (Source)

(Oct 17) Thousands of bass die-off prompts investigation in Dickinson County lakes in Iowa. (Source)

(Oct 17) Dead fish are continuing to show up on the beaches and in the water of the Neuse River in North Carolina. Some fish are floating, others are sinking to the bottom, but with a peak of 90 dead fish per foot, he estimates the total number could be in the millions. (Source)

(Oct 16) An 8.1 metre Minke whale and calf washed up on shore the Black Point Beach in Nova Scotia, Canada. (Source)

(Oct 16) The youngest of four young pilot whales rescued from a mass beach stranding on Sept. 1 in St. Lucie County, Florida died unexpectedly. The whales are the only ones that survived out of 22 sickly whales, of all ages, that beached themselves at Avalon State Park Beach. (Source)

(Oct 16) A group of long-finned pilot whales has been buried after stranding on a remote East Cape beach in New Zealand. The 51 whales came ashore in two-metre swells at Whangaparaoa Beach, near Cape Runaway, early on Sunday. Forty-four of the whales died relatively quickly from natural causes, while the other seven were injured during the stranding and were euthanised. (Source)

(Oct 15) The deaths of a dolphin, three turtles and a seven-meter, 8-ton whale shark at the weekend have illustrated the Phuket region’s losing battle to save its marine environment. (Source)

(Oct 13) Wildlife officials Friday afternoon were trying to determine what killed a young and healthy female moose found on Sylvan Lane in Weston, Massachusetts. (Source)
(Oct 10) A fresh moose carcass was discovered along the Selkirk Crest’s popular Harrison Lake Trail in Washington State prompting local Forest Service officials to issue a wildlife hazard warning. (Source)

(Oct 13) A 6m strap-toothed whale, a species of beaked whale, washed ashore at St Kilda Beach in New Zealand. (Source)

(Oct 13) A parasite that causes fish to choke to death has resulted in hundreds of tonnes of salmon being killed in fish farms across the Western Isles, Scotland. (Source)

(Oct 12) In Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, an oarfish washed ashore on the bustling Medano Beach, which features a view of the end of the Baja California peninsula. Oarfish are deep-water denizens that are rarely seen. But because of their long, slender appearance, and their bright-orange dorsal fins and manes, they helped spawn myths of sea serpents and sea monsters among ancient mariners. They’ve been known to reach lengths of 30-plus feet. (Source)

A series of earthquakes may be responsible for sending a rare deep ocean fish to its death on a beach in Baja – oarfish are traditionally known as the harbinger of a powerful earthquake. There are scientific theories that deep sea fish are sensitive to the movements of tectonic plates and may act uncharacteristically before an earthquake.

Dozens of great oarfish were found washed up on the shores of Japan roughly a year before the massive March 11 earthquake. The most recent sighting was on December 21, 2011, causing a commotion among the locals that another big earthquake may soon strike Japan. (Source)

Chances of Big Quake Below Tokyo Rising – Japan government prepares plan to flee Tokyo

Seismic activity has certainly increased this month along the Ring of Fire. (Oct 12) For the second time in a week, an earthquake with a magnitude greater than 5 hit Costa Rica’s pacific coast. (Oct 1) A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck off Mexico’s Pacific coast.

Powerful Earthquake Rattles Colombia: The 5th Magnitude 7 Quake to Strike in 45 days; The Ring of Fire Becoming Very Volatile

(Oct 12) THOUSANDS of fish have died in a Top End creek in the Northern Territory in Australia. (Source) A WEEKEND downpour in the Northern Territory has resulted in thousands of fish dying in the Katherine River. The mass fish kill at the popular river is thought to have been due to a combination of warmer temperatures and heavy rains on the weekend washing organic matter into the waterways. (Source)

(Oct 11) Nearly 50,000 of bangus (milkfish) went belly up in Dagupan City in the Philippines. (Source)

(Oct 10) A post mortem examination on the 11ft female juvenile whale which died after it beached at Fraisthorpe in the UK showed it was many miles from its usual feeding grounds and hadn’t fed for some time. The Sowerby’s beaked whale died from a bacterial infection of the brain, called vibrio vulnificus. (Source)

(Oct 9) A GROUP of former inmates lost about $13,000 after 8000 tilapia from their fish farm in Nadi, Fiji, mysteriously died. (Source)

(Oct 9) A large section of coastline in South Africa has been closed after a 30-metre whale washed ashore following an attack by Great Transparent sharks. Authorities say it’s possible the whale was already dead when sharks ripped into it. (Source)

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(Oct 9) The largest red tide bloom to affect Southwest Florida in years stretches nearly 100 miles from Lee County to Pinellas, with reports of fish kills and irritating red-tide air concentrated in Sarasota County. The widespread nature and intensity of the bloom, strongest off Charlotte Harbor, is the largest to affect the Sarasota area since 2007. More than seven tons of dead fish have been scooped up from Sarasota County beaches alone. (Source)

(Oct 9) Anthrax has killed hundreds of animals mostly in the communal parts of Manicaland in Zimbabwe within the past two months. Though there were no immediate reports of human deaths in the outbreak. (Source)

(Oct 7) Residents all over Chicago have been reporting a bizarre increase in bird carcasses over the last few weeks–most of them without any visible wounds–while the City of Chicago picked up 150 dead birds in September, a 50% increase from the month before. The phenomenon isn’t limited to a single species. (Source)

(Oct 7) A dead finback whale more than 50 feet in length was found floating in Boston Harbor early Sunday morning — a rarity for the area, officials said. (Source)

(Oct 7) A striped dolphin, possibly a male and approximately seven-feet long and 300 pounds, was found near a jetty at Lincoln Boulevard beach in New York. (Source)

(Oct 7) Fish farmers are incurring heavy losses due to epidemic deaths of climbing fish, locally known as koi, in Bangladesh in the last two months. (Source)

(Oct 5) More than 1,000 fish have been killed following a chlorine contamination incident in one of the last salmon-bearing streams in Vancouver, Canada. (Source)

(Oct 4) Volunteers at a fish hatchery on the Coquitlam River in British Columbia, Canada, are devastated after something killed 15,000 coho fry in their tanks last month. (Source).

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