Wacky Ark. Animal Deaths Continue: 100,000 Fish Go Belly Up
- Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:52am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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First birds, now fish.
After thousands of birds fell from the sky in Arkansas over the weekend, now hundreds of thousands of fish have turned up dead just 100 miles away.
The Drum fish turned up over a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas river in Northwest Arkansas.
KTHV reports:
Keith Stephens with Game and Fish explains, “We got a call last week from a tug boat operator that found the fish out on the river along the bank, in the river channel and we immediately dispatched somebody to the area to take a look.”
Investigators from local and state agencies took samples from the affected area. Stephens says fish kills occur every year, but the magnitude of this one is unusual, and disease could be the cause.
A pollutant would have affected cross species. Stephens says, “Ninety-nine percent of them were Drum, which is a bottom feeder. It’s not a game fish in Arkansas.”
Some fish collected were alive and visibly sick. They have been taken to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for testing.
The affected area was never closed and fishing is encouraged. “Right now it’s fine to fish. If you go out there you can still fish for bass and crappie, catfish, it will be fine. Obviously don‘t’ eat the dead fish.”
For now, the Game and Fish department isn’t planning a massive clean up: “We’ll have raccoon and birds and things like that will take care of it so there is really no clean up, it’s really too big. It’s contained along the river channel.”
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BoilitDown
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:31amWhen you combine this story with the “end of days” story in the Daily Caller, things begin to look Biblical.
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:13amOnly if you rely on the media to inform you.
It’s just a media wave… this isn’t on the rise. It’s just a trend. And the media is a for-profit business, so they will naturally seek out stories that fall within that category. Eventually, as always, people will get tired of reading about this stuff and the media will ignore it for another decade. It will still be happening, but won’t be reported. This “strange animal deaths” theme has come and gone in the media countless times. They always come back to cash in on things again. All it takes is one higher than normal exposure level event (such as it happening in a densely populated area) and it’s back in the news for a few weeks or months. It usually goes hand-in-hand with Hollywood too. Everyone goes on these little media trips together.
We had 4 major tornado movies. Then it was volcanoes, then earthquakes, then asteroids. At the same time, there were Discovery channel specials on each respectively, complete with their dramatic piano music and sensationalist narration. The media started reporting on it in their own brand of sensationalist narration, and everyone thought they were on the rise. Struggling nobody scientists were eager to get exposure and funding for other projects they actually care about, so they jumped at the opportunity to play the guy in the white coat. It’s just entertainment. There is no traditional “media” anymore.
Do some Googling. This is nothing new. Even if it was caused by something unusual this time, the occurrence itself is not new. So if you want to go the Biblical route, you should have been arguing it since the day you were born.
“Any time now… any time… God is just very, very slow and repetitive… any time now…”
People are so easy to manipulate. The Daily Caller? Daily Mail? MSNBC? Have you looked at anything else they have reported? This is what they do: sensationalize.
NOTHING NEW. Things die. Alone, and in groups. Deoxygenation of water, methane releases, sulphur poisoning, weather, temperature spikes, pollution, disease, any number of irresponsible human activities, seismic events… nothing new. The media can hype stuff like this at any time. All it takes is a catalyst. They got one, will squeeze every last ounce of interest out of it, then move on to the next thing. But wait another 10 or 20 years, and this will be back in the news again.
People need to stop letting mainstream media be their window to the world. It’s a distorted view of reality. This stuff fascinated me as a kid, but now I realize what it is: life. There’s always an explanation. Weird things happen. But when you really look at it, it’s not even that weird. It’s just the law of averages. All you need are the proper circumstances to coincide, and there you have it. Something happens.
Maybe we should start worrying about the 6 million human beings hacked to death in the Congo since 2000… slightly more alarming, don’t you think? If God is trying to tell us something important, it should be raining bloody machetes and the half-cannibalized corpses of babies.
Report Post »BoilitDown
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:02pm@N37BU6
Report Post »I didn’t mean what I said to be taken in such a literal way, and I wasn’t going for that much drama. I was just noting the two stories coincidentally coming out at the same time. Kind of a cartoonish observation.
BurntHills
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:29amArkansas forgets about their earthquakes and the gasses released? how about the massive New Madrid fault. there’s been how many earthquakes in the last month from Oklahoma to as far up as Indiana?!
Report Post »jburke4
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:27amAre we supposed to blame Bush, Global Warming or both?
Report Post »benoverplease
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:26amThis is a telling theme/ When a bird just drops dead from the sky its fine. When 1000 birds drop dead out the blue, it is a warning of released chemicals into the air. They are here, they are real and now they are testing not only into our atmosphere but into our waters. To destroy a population you destroy there water/food supply. Watch your backs, they are here. Where is Homeland Security and the Obama administration, oh yeah on vacation. Blame a Governor for taking a vacation before a snowstorm, then blame him for not getting back when it is snowing. Time is close for the American people to be ready for a Chemical attack. Your Government will not help. When in harms way of chemical usage in the War we used dogs, cats, chickens and tied them up front to warn if a chemical attack is imminent. The animals will die first. They are here watch your rear.
Report Post »coffinman
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 3:04pm“….When in harms way of chemical usage in the War we used dogs, cats, chickens and tied them up front to warn if a chemical attack is imminent. The animals will die first….”
Pretty horrible thing to do to innocent animals. Shoulda used lib-tards/Muslim extreemists/thugs/illegal aliens/gang members first.
Report Post »katy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:26amThe military is testing a “species specific” poison with the help of Andy Sterns SIGA
http://www.thepoliticalclass.com/2010/06/seius-andy-stern-joins-board-of-directors-of-bio-warfare-company-human-bio-armor.html
One day they will be able to wipe out out whole town of white conservatives…….think I’m kidding???
Report Post »LukeAppling
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:23amWe have lived in Florida for 25 years and last year in Central Florida our small “lakes” and retention ponds saw the deaths of thousands of fish during the cold spell. I could not believe there were anywhere near that number of live fish in these waterways but it was thousands which died and it took 2 weeks for the vultures to clean up the mess. Now we begin again as the cold reaches us even sooner this year.
Report Post »stmike
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:16amI was gonna make a joke about the ten plagues of Egypt and the four horsemen of the apocalypse but does anybody remember Love Canal?
Report Post »hkyfan36
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:06amAdd your comments
Report Post »ThoreauHD
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:01amI‘m a bit surprised that this guy isn’t worried what toxin is at the bottom of the river that he’s eating and drinking out of. Not a whole lot of scenarios kill only bottom feeders in nature. Raw waste water and sewage can do it. Also other chemicals that are much worse.
Either he knows what it is already, or he’s too stupid to care.
Report Post »AWatchman4Him
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:59amI think it’s time for a fish Czar !
Report Post »wash1776
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:56amSurprising someone isn’t blaming it on global warming. That’s next I suppose.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:14amI’m freezing my butt off right now and I live in the valley of the sun (Arizona) Come on global warming!
Report Post »BOUGHT YOUR SILO YET?
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:56amWas just in Phoenix for the New Year and it was COLD there. Drove back to Southern California on the 1st. Started snowing and has yet to quit. Did I mention this was SOUTHERN California? Yeah! Where is that global warming when you need it.
Report Post »Roboking
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:05pmWhy don’t we EVER hear the words CHEMTRAILS and HAARP on FOX? HAARP is a Navy/Air Force Project, do a search! I read that the Government has a gag order on the media not to mention ANYTHING to do with 2012.
Report Post »benrumsley
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:52amHow far from the New Madrid Fault Zone are these incidents actually taking place? The release of sulfur dioxide or methane gas could account for both of these incidents.
Report Post »shorthanded12
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:48amThis is a test run for the Dept of Health and Human Services leading up to OBAMACARE. Once they master (control) animal life than they will turn to us. Something fishy about all of this…Remember in 2009 and H1N1??????? That whole scare was orchestrated by the CDC and WHO organizations not to mention the pharmaceutical companys that made ($MILLIONS) the so called vacine.
Report Post »gchrv
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:42amIs it at all possible that the birds ate the dead fish and as a result they died as well..
the report is that the fish died last week and the birds died over the weekend…
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:01amMaybe sapper has a point about the sewer treatment plant killing the fish and then, as you suggest, the birds ate the fish. Good point.
Report Post »thresher52
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:41pmI am not sure, but I don’t think RW Blackbirds are scavengers, they eat grain and grass products.
Report Post »starman70
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:38amLiberal politicians including Bill Clinotn and Hillary are the cause, or was it UFOs?
Report Post »sapper
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:36amoh, and nerve gas or other pollutant would have killed off other species of fish and wildlife…..not just drumfish. Looking on google earth, there is a wastewater treatment plant just upstream from where the fish kill is…….gee I wonder if anyone is checking out a possible spill from that place as raw sewasge will cause exactly this kind of kill. I saw it happen once when I was a health inspector after a major storm caused sewer system to overflow and drain into a bayou. Next day hundreds of bottom feeding fish were floating dead. City was fined $100 per dead fish by the TWC/TNRCC which was the state regulatory agancy. I would bet this wastewater treatment plant that sits on tributary less than a mile from the river and not far upstream from the fish kill is probably a good candidate for being responsible. As for the birds…..as far as I know no one has ever really explained why this happens. I saw it once when I lived there. Very weird.
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:45amThat does make sense..but I would wonder why not catfish too, since catfish are also bottom feeders? Drum are not easy to kill either. If you catch one and throw it in an ice chest, they can live for a long time. My fishermen son can attest to that one.
Report Post »JuneGem
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:45amThe bird incident was only a couple days ago, so no cause determination, yet. Most were redwing blackbirds in a very localized event, so was probably a flock that flew though a severe weather system. Doubt the wastewater treament plant had anything to do with the fish kill. Catfish are bottom feeders, too, and have not been affected. Obviously an intraspecies disease. Not exactly unheard of.
Report Post »Goldlady
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:16amI think you‘d have to take a bucket of Xanax to be lulled into thinking everything’s okie dokie in your town when birds are falling out of the sky and fish are on your riverbanks. It’s just a tiny, lone, never before defined weather system in concert with a little random interspecies disease. Happens all the time. Okay. The Xanax are kicking in and I’m okay with that. Go outside and play, kids.
Report Post »eak3
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:24amThats real smart. Let all the land scavengers eat all fish that are dead for God knows what reason and maybe it can spread to them.
Report Post »runninonempty
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 6:04pmI wuz a thinkin’ that same thang.
Report Post »sapper
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:21amhmmm, first of all having lived both in Hot Springs and Little Rock for a total of 8 years I can say that I did see once before birds falling out of the sky like this but never heard of fish kills like this one. Secondly, at swampy……I hope you don’t equate everyone in the state to the ****** football fans. I was not a football fan much less a razorback fan. Can’t stand college football. Not everyone up there goes nuts over the stupid football team. Thirdly, THANK GOD I GOT OUT OF THAT DAMN STATE! Moved back to where I’ve lived most of my life other than 4 years in the army and 8 years in Arkansas. It‘s pretty but that’s about all it has going for it.
Report Post »SHASTADIANE1
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:41amI moved to AR from CA 33 years ago. It is home and we love it. But not all people are football fans. When we went to Dallas last month, some folks from Nebraska I think, for a football game, and they were nuts too. Nice nuts, but football crazy. So that is just mean talk to talk bad about someones state. Fish kills are not unusual in AR. I’d never heard of a lake turning over before, but it will sure happen. Changes in the weather, temperatures, any number of things could cause it. Fish and game will figure it out, I figure. It might be “the end of the world”!! (just kidding)
Report Post »N37BU6
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:43am“having lived both in Hot Springs and Little Rock for a total of 8 years I can say that I did see once before birds falling out of the sky”
And the probable explanation is right in the name: Hot Springs. One of the more active geothermal areas in mainland USA. All sorts of nasty gases down there, many of which are lighter than air. And hot, so will rise either way.
If people want to see mass animal deaths, go to Yellowstone. Entire herds of animals have been poisoned there.
Report Post »Ortho
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:35pmI too moved to Arkansas from California 20 + years ago and I love it. We, by the way, are in the black for our state budget , we are also a “right to work state” and we ditched Blanche this year. All 3 things are very positive for the state :)
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:07amWasn’t there a big spill south of there recently?
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:54amOne would wager that an oil spill would affect birds that:
1) Consume directly from the sea as a regular diet (think, sea gulls)
Report Post »2) Affect more than one species regardless
Fina Biscotti
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:17pmThousands of fish turned belly up….found in Plaquemines, Louisiana.
The federal government was very quick to claim…it was not from the Oil Spill….(massive oil spew)……but Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungresser wanted to have tests run anyway….to ensure that it was not another food source being affected by the oil……(toxic dispersant Corexit).
The bottom of the waters from Louisiana to Florida…….has HUNDREDS of MILLIONS dead worms……with gooey oil residue…..floating in the bottom.
Report Post »TruthisHealthy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:03amThe enemies within are poisoning the food chain. Just watch! They are practicing on the poor birds and fish in Arkansas.
Report Post »ProudInfidel
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 4:40pmThat was my thought. Not implausible I think.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:03amThe end is just around the corner.
Report Post »BurntHills
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:30am5 ancient civilizations who knew more about the stars than modern ordinary people today do, all say “2012”. these earthquakes are just the warm up.
Report Post »waitin42012
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:47amNo kidding, I am just waiting for the locust next.
Report Post »BlazingMad
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:16pmReally? It’s 2011 and you think that some civilization thousands of years ago KNEW when the world would “end”. They *knew* more than we do about space. They had higher math than we do.
I suppose you can wrap yourself up in any cocoon you want. Honestly, that kind of talk is just as nuts as the folks saying Christ is coming on May 21st. It’s lunacy.
I can’t wait to celebrate my birthday (Dec. 22nd) in 2012.
Report Post »rbqueen
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:06pmOf course it’s right around the corner! Didn’t you read the story about it being on May 21, 2011? LOL
Probably it wasn’t supposed to happen the way it did, since the birds and the fish wasn‘t truly raptured but maybe that’s having the curse of being a bird or a fish.
Report Post »SND97
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:01amoops, I won’t pea in the water off my boat there ever again HONEST!!
Report Post »jackkemo
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:48amlmao, hahahahaha
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:00amIt’s God getting back for having such awful football fans, we were plagued with hundreds of the retards driving through to go to their bowl game.
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:46amwell arent you a real class act…..
Report Post »FoxholeAtheist
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:59amLolololol
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:13amOMG – that is so funny – thanks that was my laugh for the day!!! Good one!!!
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KissMYgritZ
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:44amGator transplanted in AR and the only thing worse than an Arkansas fan is the stench from an LSU fan. I can smell you from here. Go dig up some mud or something.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:54amAnyone consider that Spooky Dude was in the area?
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:59amIt’s the H1N2 Drum Flu………..
Report Post »KenInIL
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 6:46pmToo much Carbon dioxide! Where is the EPA on this??? It’s obvious a big bubble of CO2 caused all the birds to suffocate and then landed in the river an killed the fish. No?? How about a plume of Sulfuric Acid from a power plant scrubber?
Report Post »itsmyfirstday
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 8:56amIt‘s Bush’s fault….
Report Post »Helldogger
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:07amYeah, & everybody knows that’s a conservative river where KKK members fish. HarHar.
Report Post »racialcoward
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 9:09amDON’T WORRY, IT COULD BE JUST SOME NERVE GAS.
You know the kind of nerve gas Sadamm Hussain didn’t have. You know the kind of gas the religion of peace has threatened to use against us. Listen carefully to the lies the Federal Government uses to try and cover up these incidents. Global warming, thats it, Weather Change.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {cat folk art}
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:05amOf course they will blame Bush for this; I thought the birds dropping out of the sky would be on the strange, yet perfectly reasonable side when a explenation is found. Now we have a large fish kill on a narrow area of the river, could it be a coincidence, or the cause of one somehow linked with the other in a chain of natural causes?
untameable-kate
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 10:52amThe guy that posted tis story thinks dead fish and birds is WACKY? Wierdo.
Report Post »SusansSS
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:06amWhen I read about the fish, like the birds having only one type die, my thoughts went to a video on youtube of Bill Gates talking about a vaccine that would kill only people with a certain gene while leaving everyone else healthy as a way to jump start the needed deaths for us to be self sustaining.
IF this is testing of a new government weapon that will kill only one group, I would say it was quite successful. Now, how long before they use it on humans and, will they blame lightning, fireworks, or disease when people drop dead all around us?
Will this be seen as rapture by the masses?
Report Post »Reagan/DeMint.deciple
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 11:08amHhhmmm……. I wonder.. I hear Obama hit a golf ball into the river and had to play it were it was, therefore he went in after it….. ??????
Report Post »Highland
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 12:28pmI blame Huckabee.
Report Post »oldoldtimer
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:21pmKey word: bottom feeder. Only one species–so far. I keep thinking heavy pollutant dumped in the water. One that does not dilute easily and is heavy and sink to the bottom. They are testing the fish so why not the bottom mud up stream? It could be something that suffiates the fish rather than poisoning them. If people really knew how much toxic waste is dumped illegally into rivers it would scare them to death. 99% of all waters in this country is polluted. Even so called pristine waters. Tanker load after tanker load of industrial waste is brought south and dumped along road sides and into water ways. They like to run the back roads at night and hit the dump switch in isolated areas. It is cheaper than disopsing of it properly. All they care about is cost. $10,000 to get rid of $200,000 of waste and no questions asked.
Report Post »TheAmericanRifleman
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 1:49pmSounds like a good night of dynomite fishing…too good a night.
Report Post »*************************
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 3:43pmDon’t worry, folks! I’ve just placed a call to Jessie Ventura and “Conspiracy Theory”! ‘Cause … if strange events happen and they don’t make sense, the Progressives (communists) infiltrators in government have their hand in it:
“Conspiracy Theory with Gov. Jesse Ventura Gulf Coast OIL SPILL Conspiracy”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQ9uFzuXh8w
“Now I don‘t have to tell you good folks what’s been happening in our beloved little town. Sheriff murdered, crops burned, stores looted, people stampeded, and cattle raped. The time has come to act, and act fast. I’m leaving.” -Rev. Johnson, Blazing Saddles
Report Post »SusansSS
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 3:54pmThese fish being bottom feeders isn’t the answer, if it was there would be dead catfish too. Its targeted killings.
Report Post »tower7femacamp
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 6:15pmsoon we will be next
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postscript
Posted on January 3, 2011 at 7:50pmThe affected area was never closed and fishing is encouraged. “Right now it’s fine to fish. If you go out there you can still fish for bass and crappie, catfish, it will be fine. Obviously don‘t’ eat the dead fish.”
What???… you have no idea how the 100,000 fish died but your SURE that it’s ok to eat everything but the dead ones… What???… you KNOW the rest of the fish are ok?….what??? thank you fish and game, I can’t wait to drop a line in those waters…
Report Post »GA_dandelion
Posted on January 4, 2011 at 7:44pmBritish Petroleum
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