A South Carolina news agency is reporting a massive fish die-off on their coast.  The news report basically just stated the species (Menhaden) and that their oil is used for lipstick.  No mention of any possible causes, nor the biological impact of thousands of fish suddenly disappearing from the living biomass.  Just the yusue. NBD.

Then I did little digging.  Turns out, this isn’t the only die-off THIS WEEK!  About 7 days ago, a very similar die-off happened, same spot, same fish.  The cause was supposedly “Cold Water Stress”.  Hmmmmm.  Oh, and similar things are happening in Massachusetts, Arkansas, Brazil, and New Zealand.  The excuses are all the same, and are really just speculation.  No one seems to know.  Cold Water, Algae, Oxygen Deprivation.  If you remember your High School Chemistry, Cold Water absorbs MORE oxygen then how water.  An explosion of algae, or some other organism that requires large amounts of O2 wo survive could account for that, but the fact is no one knows.

And there’s more!  Not only are there massive fish dying off, but a large number of birds are simply dropping dead out of the sky in Sweden.  This is where it gets REALLY weird.  Forensics were done on the birds, and you know what the medical staff say?  The birds died from “sudden, hard external blows“.  From what?!  Speculation abound, but no real answers.  This sounds really familiar.  Oh that’s right.  Before the days of the FFP, I was printing out articles on weird crap just for fun (now I do it for the avid readers).  This story stuck out, because it was literally a scene from the show Flashforward.

Oh and just one more thing.  A similar incident happened in Louisiana, near Labarre that New Years Eve.  Why is all this stuff happening in the same general geographical location, around the same time of year?