What is going on with the Pacific Ocean? Giant Squids, and Now Pilchard Fish washing up Dead on Shores, Sea Otters Dying in Mass

The Pacific Ocean seems to have a lot going on right now, that is not good. Along the coast of California, into Canada many sea animals have been washing up dead in record numbers.

A few weeks ago, Giant Squid washed up in the San Diego area, right before a large quake in the Pacific.

Let me also clarify, I have kept an eye on Whale and Dolphin Beachings and then watch the quake map to see if there is correspondence to the beachings and earthquakes. I have found some correspondening events. There was a huge whale beaching earlier this year in Tasmania, then an unusual quake hit days later in Southern Australia, near Tasmania. The thing about whale beachings is, there are thousands of deserted islands throughout the Pacific and beachings are not found, unless it happens in a populated area.

Now there are reports out today of all kinds of beachings around California and Canada.

Link to the Giant Squid and Pilchard Fish along the Canadian Coast:

http://www.britishcolumbia.name/news/first-it-was-squid-now-it%C2%92s-pilchard/







Dead fish rest atop a decomposing Humboldt squid on North Chesterman Beach Wednesday. Click here to see more photos. (Keven Drews Photo)



TOFINO — Nearly 1,000 pilchard and herring washed up on a Tofino beach Wednesday, just days after a similar phenomenon involving Humboldt squid.



Here is information regarding the Squid Only

link: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2009/08/05/bc-tofino-giant-squid.html

Dozens of so-called jumbo squid have washed ashore along Vancouver Island beaches in recent weeks, although a local biologist believes their deaths were likely natural.


The Humboldt squid have been washing up in the Tofino area, on the west coast of the island.

Josie Osborne of the Raincoast Education Society says the squid were probably immature juvenile animals that may have been hunting before the water carried them to land.

"What likely happened is that they came closer to the water's surface during the night (when they hunt) as they were chasing their prey, and they may have encountered colder water or stronger currents and washed ashore on the beach," Osborne wrote in a mass email this week.

The species is native to the deep waters off Mexico, but have moved north as waters have warmed.
Osborne suggested the especially warm waters caused by the El Nino phenomenon brought the squid into Canadian waters.

"The presence of the squid and their prey is a reminder that we are experiencing an El Nino event this year — a climatic oscillation that occurs every three to eight years and which results in warmer waters off the west coast of Vancouver Island," wrote Osborne.
Osborne said there was a similar mass stranding in La Jolla, Calif., just three weeks ago.
Nikki Laine, who owns a bed and breakfast on Chesterman Beach near Tofino, was out walking with a friend when they came across 38 squid.

Laine said all but one appeared to be dead, and while the animals didn't smell, there were lots of flies about.
"I've never seen a squid around on any beach in 30 years," she said. "It was really sad. I sort of wondered why they washed up on the beach."


I have always been amazed, the experts always put out some reason right away, (they do the same with whale beachings) instead of looking deeper into the incidents. First, what is going on in the Pacific Ocean?

Sea Lions and Sea Otters are Dying in Mass right now along the California coast too. The reasoning, I have been reading is because so many were born last year. But it seems to me, nature takes care of it's own on a normal basis. Is their food supply dying off, causing them to die?


link:http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/south_bay&id=6894794


MONTEREY, CA (KGO) -- Sea otters along the California coast are dying faster than at any time since the late 1990s. It is disturbing new evidence of the threat ocean pollution is posing to marine wildlife.

We do know, for instance, that it is not reduced reproduction that is limiting population growth; we know that it is indeed elevated mortality," USGS wildlife biologist Tim Tinker said. Tinker has been studying the otter population since the early 1990's.
The spring census found just over 2,600 otters along 375 miles of coast; a nearly 4 percent drop from the year before.
Betty and Jack Duffield noticed the decline immediately. Every year they visit Moss Landing State Beach in the shadow of the old power plant. It is a little known spot where an extraordinary number of otters hang out. Tuesday, Betty counted just 26.

"When wildlife decreases there's a problem; it's very disturbing," Betty Duffield said

Researchers agree. They say the drop in the otter population is much more serious and much more significant than the problems seen this year with other marine mammals like sea lions.


Otters are often referred to as the cannery in the coal mine because they are an early indicator as to the overall health of the ocean.
Lab tests indicate the otters are dying primary from infectious disease, likely caused by manmade pollutants.



The information regarding Sea Lions washing up on the shores of California
link:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32244666/ns/local_news-san_luis_obispo_ca/

Record number of Sea Lions Washing up on Central Coast Shores

If you spend any time at the beach, you may have noticed a number of sea lions washing up on Central Coast shores.

Experts at the Marine Mammal Center in Morro Bay say they are seeing an unusual number of strandings this year.

Rehab centers for marine mammals are taking in almost three times the number of injured, sick and malnourished sea lions that they normally do.

It is estimated that just 20 percent of all newborn sea lions survive.
So far this year, 860 sea lions have been taken in for rehabilitation.

Their overpopulation and scarce food options could be to blame.



I have read how many have been dying and also seen on the highways in California.

Something is happening in the Pacific, including the new land which rose in Alaska last month - which just appeared almost overnight and there is still no explaination for. It was a large amount of land too.

link: http://www.homernews.com/stories/070809/news_1_002.shtml


Like a giant fist punching through the earth, a 1,000-foot long section of the beach below Bluff Point rose up 20 feet from the tidelands sometime last Friday or late Thursday, pushing boulders up from the ocean bottom, cracking sandstone slabs and toppling rocks upside down.

Below Bluff Point, a new fissure opened up at the base of the 800-foot high cliff. The uplift could be a re-activation of a landslide that happened perhaps 12,000 years ago.

"There was just beach before," said Ron Hess, who lives on Bluff Road above the new uplift. "Now there are tidal pools."

"You can see a rock circle," said Marilyn Hess. "All you used to see was one big rock, and now you can see this uplift of rock."

Scientists don't know exactly what caused the uplift. It would take an earthquake over magnitude 7 to cause an uplift that high, said Peter Haeussler, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Anchorage.

"I have no idea," he said when he first learned of the uplift. "This sounds really, really bizarre."




There are so many different things going on in the Pacific of sea animals dying, land rising, and volcanoes erupting in record numbers this year around the ring of fire.

I wish scientist and geologist would look more closely at everything and start putting the dots together, instead of throwing out a reason immediately. There is more going on which needs to be looked at and watch what Earth events happen after beachings etc. If others can watch and start putting events together and see there is more of a reason of the sea animals committing suicide than just hunger or the other reasons they come up with.

It makes sense to me, that animals living in the ocean are affected by Earth movements under the ocean which can cause them harm or distress from the noise happening with the Earth and the sound traveling through the water.

Personally, I will be watching the undersea volcanoes (like Tonga) and for large Earthquakes in the very near future for possible links to the various animals beaching and dying along the coast today and the last few days.

The above sea animal deaths along the West Coast of the U.S and Canada - could be precursors to some large Earth events.

I will be keeping an eye on the U.S.G.S Earthquake map, to watch and see if something happens Earth wise, causing the animals to commit suicide.

I feel it is strange for all of these animal deaths happening close in time - without some kind of link connecting them, besides global warming and hunger.