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Seals, Sea Lions, Polar Bears, Bald Eagles, Sea Stars, Turtles, King and Sockeye Salmon, Herring, Anchovies, Sardines All Dying
We’ve previous documented that seals, sea lions, polar bears, sea stars, turtles, sockeye salmon, herring, anchovies and sardines on the West Coast of North America are all suffering mysterious diseases … which are killing many.
We’ve asked whether this is related to massive releases of radiation from Fukushima. Update.
Sadly, we can now add other wildlife to the list.
EneNews reports:
Los Angeles Times, Dec. 29, 2013: Bald eagles are dying in Utah — 20 in the past few weeks alone — and nobody can figure out why. [...] Many suffered from seizures, head tremors and paralysis [...] Many of the eagles were brought to the mammoth Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah [...] Within 48 hours, most were dead. [...] State wildlife specialists are baffled. For weeks, officials have sent birds for necropsies [...] At first, the agency’s disease scientists guessed the illness could be encephalitis, which is caused by the West Nile virus, but later ruled out that possibility. [...] Officials suggest the die-off is possibly connected to the deaths of thousands of eared grebes that began in Utah in November. [...] Officials still don’t know why the shore birds became sick. [...] Officials at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center have their own theories. Some point to radiation from Japan after the 2011 meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. [...] A call from Idaho shed new light: A wildlife official said bald eagles there were also getting sick, suggesting the birds were arriving in Utah already in bad health.
Buz Marthaler, Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah co-founder: “It’s just hard to have your national bird in your arms, going through seizures in a way it can’t control — when you can see it’s pain but don’t know what’s happening to it. As a human being, you just have problems with that. And when you lose one, it just grabs your heart. [...] In an average year, we might get one or two, but we’ve received nine so far, and five of those have died. The other four are still in our care. [...] We aren’t ruling out anything.”
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Washington Post, Dec. 30, 2013: [...] “This is really concerning to us,” says [Leslie McFarlane, the wildlife disease program coordinator for the state’s Division of Wildlife Resources]. She has been program coordinator for 10 years and describes the recent deaths as “very unusual.” [...] The symptoms noted in the recent spate of deaths—and the broad geographical area in which they have cropped up—are what has officials concerned.
In a second article, EneNews notes:
Juneau Empire, Dec. 29, 2013: [...] the king [chinook] salmon — has fallen from its throne. [...] Alaska has seen unprecedented declines in recent years [...] scientists like Joe Orsi and Jim Murphy, both fisheries research biologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, are digging deeper into [...] the cause of the startling downward trend. [...] When asked about the potential impact Fukushima may be having on king salmon stocks in the Gulf of Alaska and elsewhere in the state, Orsi would not comment. “I’ve been told to refer you to the (Environmental Protection Agency),” he said, “Because I’m not an expert on the topic.” Calls and emails to the EPA were not returned in time and digging on the federal agency’s site revealed no current information on radiation from the Fukushima disaster. The last posted monitoring results occurred in June of 2011.
Unfortunately, the American and Japanese governments are doing everything they can to cover up the severity of the Fukushima disaster. Indeed, anytime government or big corporations screw up, the government works to cover it up … instead of actually fixing the problem. And see this.
EneNews continues:
Bellingham Herald, Dec. 5, 2013: “[...] we see from test fisheries that the Chinook numbers returning to the Fraser River system were at a record low,” explained Ken Balcomb, executive director and principal investigator for The Center for Research and a science advisor to the whale watch association. [...] [An] alarming decrease of an important identified food resource [...]
Islander Sound, Dec. 25, 2013: [A] dismal return of Chinook salmon to the Fraser River.
Salmon Fishing in British Columbia, Canada: There are two major salmon runs of Chinook that are targeted by anglers; the Fraser river [and] Harrison River.
December 2013: Previously unpublished map from gov’t scientists shows Fukushima plume already at Alaska coast (PHOTO)
Note from Management: All of these mystery diseases and deaths at the same time are just a coincidence. You are perfectly safe. This is not the Droid you're looking for ...
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Hilliary Clinton has already beaten her in this respect.
Respect for Hillarity??? You have got to be kidding.
Janet Napalitano was elected Governor...of the state of ARIZONA.
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The Zonies brains are baked by too much Sun.
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Sieg Heil Frau Napalitano.
Sieg Heil du Lesben-Weibchen aus der Hölle.
It's the last straw that breaks the camel's back, but all the rest are responsible as well.
Yesterday, I picked up a can of tuna, thinking I might include it in a macaroni salad later in the day. Looked at the label and saw the word "Pacific" on it. Put it back.
A few days ago, I was buying vegetables and began to wonder where they came from. I live in upstate NY, so all winter vegetables are obviously coming from warmer climates. Bought a few peppers, a red onion and some broccoli, and thought that one day, perhaps soon, people will be asking where the vegetables come from.
Personally, I'm pretty freaked out about Fukushima. It's been nearly three years, and radiation of varying amounts and forms are still spilling out. I am not a nuclear scientist, but I know enough to realize that Fukushima needs to be contained and that the ongoing silence and probable coverup by various governments and the media are a sure warning sign that all is NOT well.
Sure, maybe I'm paranoid, but once February comes, and I move to my land in South Carolina, I'm growing as much as I can, as fast as I can, getting off the grid, eating only non-GMO vegetables and meats from locally-raised animals or fish from local waters. Not that I'm afraid of dying - I'm 60, and I'm not - but I like to think I have maybe 15-30 good years left and surely don't want to die from cancer because I ate food that was contaminated and our beneficent government didn't have the common decency to inform us.
Fuku may or may not be an ELE, but, if it proves to be, I plan on trying like hell to outlive it, and, if I can't, taking a bankster or two along with me on my final ride into Hades.
Happy New Year, bitches. Fight back.
I love it. A 50-year old who says: "Bitches."
(Says the 40-year old who says "Bitchez.")
My friend Gene Tracey shot up the whole dadgum place cause the chick had a noodle in that thang vs a hair in his soup just a while ago at supper. You had to be there.
You probably have a better chance of dying by being hit by a runaway Prius driven by an undernourished vegan who passed out behind the wheel from low blood sugar.
sorry yall, i voted for the funny of that shit way before i may find some context
It's kinda telling that pre Fukushima, my produce at the local grocery store usually had on it's sticker what state it came from, or what country other than the US it came from. Now they just say USA or some other country, prolly cause itif it said California, they'd lose a little business, at least from the people aware how bad Fukushima really is.
There's one of the Un-Damn Yankees. Come on down!
http://www.radiationnetwork.com/
Radiation levels are now three to four times what they were before the Fukushima meltdown. In my neck of the woods.
I don't understand why GE wants to keep this swept under the rug. The CEO and share holders have to breath the same contaminated air that we do. I think its time to all admit the Nuclear industry needs to shut down.
There is plenty of Geothermal capacity available to replace it.
Actually there's not: most places are too hard to drill down for geothermal that need the heat most, like in Canada, and you'd have to still worry about groundwater and fracturing underground caverns and causing sinkholes.
It's better we try but nuclear can't go away. SOLID FUEL has to go away. Thorium reactors, liquid fuel, is the way to go. We have way, way more thorium and very little uranium is needed just to get one started.
Solid fuel rods are wrapped in what amounts to be explosives, for their neutron deflecting abilities, and what do you think happens when shit goes wrong?
Boom. Just like at the Daiichi reactors.
I live in the SF Bay Area. When I got up to piss last night,
my pecker was glowin' like a Hendrix poster under a blacklight. Sure am glad I got Obamacare to fall back on.
I hate it when that happens
although i agree the fallout on wildlife and foodstocks is just starting, this article is reaching for the bald eagle piece. even as a believer in the disaster-in-progress, articles like this sound very tin foil hat. wiht so much actual info in the oceans, as noted later on the article, there is plenty of confirmed info to be spreading.
George, not judging your evidence, but isn't there also an issue with the sardine populations that is a cyclical thing? Can it be a combination of that AND fukushima?
This disaster will be looked back upon(if their are any reasoning hominids left), as a reason why you cannot have a government.
The bald eagle in the coal mine.
re: "Fukushima?"
No, it's obviously Muslim climate changers... /s
Our state bird in Utah is a seagull. They ain't care bout no bald eagles.
Utah - state bird - seagull? Didn't know you had that many landfills.
seagulls and the mormon cricket
don't fuck with the gulls when in Utah, that is sound advice
Yea we got a bunch of seagulls here. Felony to kill one.
The seagulls saved the pioneers crops of the Mormon crickets. Or some bullshit like that so now it's the state bird.
They do not understand that Salt Lake City is right next to a Salt Lake.
LMAO.
Buy a geiger counter and use it. They are pretty inexpensive now. Between all the nuclear plants that are leaking, all the nuclear tests in Nevada, and now Fukushima, there is plenty of unseen danger to be found.
I agree. Buy one and use it. But you may be surprised. I have two. Both detect all types of radiation. One is a PRM-9000 and the other is an Inspector EXP. They are both pretty high end units. I have scanned the tiles on my roof. I have scanned the old air filters from my cars. I have tested the seafood (and most other food I consume). I've tested packages I get from mail and shipments, etc. You know what I found? NOT A GOD DAMN THING. Whoever said background radiation levels are 3 to 4 times higher in their neck of the woods... Are you kidding me? I've been monitoring radiation levels myself, as well as on radiationnetwork.com for years, even before fukushima, and the total count from all detectors in all locations is flat to SLIGHTY DOWN. People really need to stop fear mongering. If you have real information please provide it. This is serious stuff and there is absolutely no time for sensationalism and paranoia.
And just how close to a reactor, or to Fukushima, do you live? None's coming my way because it dumps across the Rockies first, then the plains and moves south, before finally the jetstream reaches me. Lucky me. Maybe not so much for you. East Coast North America will be the last hit by the radiation along with probably the Italy-Greece area. In time, though, all the Northern Hemisphere will be hit. This could take decades just to stop the flow of contaminated 300 tons/day water into the ocean. Maybe not even finished by the time I die of old age and I'm not that old.
dp
you never did rain swipe tests? you do know that's about the only way to get an accurite measurment with those units. back ground air readings mean nothing unless a fresh blow off comes from fukushima. and btw you really cannot measure food with those units. you found nothing because you dont know what you're doing.
i regularly get 150-250 CPM from fresh rain sipes and i'm on the fucking east coast. these isotopes will be coming down in rain for decades to come so you still have time to learn how to use them. lol
So 'trgfunds'...
Where do you live brother? And what type of seafood do you eat?... If you have relevant facts to challenge the scientists that have been watching this for the last 2 years in telling us it's as bad as we think it is -you have the floor.
Trust me. We all need to hear the good news, so fire away pal with the salvo of good cheer coming out of Fukushima Daiichi.
With DOE and U.S. Navy trolls and NRC lobbyist shills that visit this site regularly to contradict the message on reads like this, I was wondering if you and (those like you) will simply back up your statements with fact on our "paranoia" or kindly just shut the fuck up!
On that note. In the support of an industry that is and has been proving fatal to animal life for more than 68 years, you have to be lowest forms of life and worst pieces of shit that ever walked on two legs to continue the false narrative for a paycheck.
Hope selling your soul for it was worth it!
I live in Arizona, US. I get various fish and meats from regular supermarket chains. The "relevant facts" that I have are outlined in what I said. I have not seen any startling levels of radiation in anything I have tested. I have monitored the crowd sourced radiationnetwork.com for years. The levels have not increased in general. I am not saying there is any "good news". Information is neither good nor bad. It is information. I just didn't trust EITHER SIDE. The establishment/science/media OR the schizo internet forums of the world. So I decided to test myself. I have explained to you what I found. The level of paranoia and sensationalism that goes on over the internet can sometimes be deafening. I'm sure you know that. Before you call me names again, perhaps you should test some things yourself and share the information that you find with us so we can get a better understanding of our environment and the issue at hand. Thanks.
I sometimes wonder about the effect of all those anti-depressants and drugs that humans take and then the residue of those drugs travelling through the sewage system and into the ocean. How hard would it be for our insane pharmaceutical diets to be finally ending up in the guts and brains of all wildlife through one route or another?
It seems there are no independant sources for food chain radiation measuring. I do not believe that the FDA would tell us the truth about radiation in the food chain anymore than the Japanese government has told the truth.
+!00 to elephant and ebworthen. The sea may die (red tide turns it a yuky red color and kills all kinds of animals every year) and Utah is not far from the west coast unless you are driving. It takes hours to get there. I believe eagles have a range that migrates from the Pacific 'Sallmon rich' waters to wherever they want to go, sometimes inland to Utah. I suspect, though I do not know for sure, that the Utah birds don't bother to migrate to the coast. (Someone liveing in their mothers basement might have the time to check into that)
Both are good points that need more investigation. My basic point!
Eagles are at the top of the food chain.
Utah is not far from the West Coast, and lots of smaller migratory birds there from further West who ate insects, berries, etc.
Who else is at the top of the food chain? Why...humans of course.
Can't believe they haven't entombed Fukushima in concrete yet.
Unlike chernabul, Fukashema has 3 active critical meltdowns that are still boiling water that is poured on it. Concrete would be less effective than lots of molten steel attempting to encase or dilute it into becoming sub critical.
Come on...The Steam Explosion resulting from encasement will be a blast.
I like built up pressures being violently released. The dramaric affect will be exhilerating.
Let's encase Fukushima today. /sarc
Give Fukushima a pass, entomb Washington DC, it's far more destructive.
Yet another audition for hate radio.
You start by getting into radio, bo. Ten years of paying for internships, then get your hate schtick down.
No shortcuts in blogs.
I think you mean productive.
Revelation 16:3
The second angel poured out his bowl on the sea, and it turned into blood like that of a dead person, and every living thing in the sea died.So, what you seem to be saying is that radioactive material from a damaged nuclear reactor in Japan which is seeping into the ground will produce no consequences whatsoever , and additionally will have absolutely no impact on surrounding waters today, tomorrow, or next year. Care to cite some sources?
Implications for the rest of the world aside, are you aware that once upon a time Japan was self sufficient in foodstuffs such as fish, rice, chicken and eggs? I'll give you two guesses what's happening now.
The ocean has currents. Admittedly, however, many models take the path to the south and east of mainland Japan Still, that contaminated water is traveling somewhere. Agree or disagree?
I just don't buy into the linear no-threshold model.
Life on earth has been bathed in radiation for 3+ billion years - it has developed coping mechanisms over and above background levels.
So enjoy those 15,000 or so particles that visit your body second, they might have helped our ancestors evolve.
So how are things at GE today? Still bringing good things to life?
If you want a real chuckle, look up GE's corporate HQ on Google Maps, take a look at how they've constructed their "Bond Villian" style compound, er, sorry, "corporate headquarters." Feel the pride displayed by this corporate leviathan's palace that is barely peeking out from behind the massive berms constructed around it. The only thing missing is about 50 billion gallons of water to fill that loathsome square salad bowl of evil and drown every rat in it. Gee, I wonder who might have a gigantic surplus of really nasty water to use for this task? Anyone got Tepco's number?
"They that doeth evil hateth the light," and it's truly hard to imagine a darker place than GE corporate HQ. Thanks a bunch, GE, for all the wonderful things you've brought to death...
You hold back all year, look at you now.
We can't have incandescent bulbs anymore, just CFL's full of mercury, LEDs made from arsenic, and glow in the dark canned salmon! These are such exciting times.
amazon.com sylvania 100 watt 48 pack 55.00 dollars.
I rid myself of those nasty CFLs and arsenic LEDs - just use the salmon now.
Elevated levels of radiation have been reported in the tuna population off the coast of San diego. I, for one, believe it's credible.
Reports of much higher than normal sea life littering the floors off the coast.
We all know how this works, as we'll be presented the reality much further down the line.
I was told to stock up on canned tuna and salmon now...just a responsible hedge.