Japan and Japanese

[Shinpachi]

This Daily Mail's news seems to be controversial in Hokkaido Prefecture.
I don't deny any possibilities about Fukushima Dai-ichi.

Thousands of tons of dead fish wash ashore in Japan - three months after the nation released treated Fukushima radioactive water into the sea

Thousands of tons of dead fish wash ashore in Japan

The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating an unsettling sliver blanket across the shoreline

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[A4K]

That's very sad. When will we wake up and realise what we are doing to this planet.

 

[MiTasol]

Unless there has been some significant undersea volcanic activity in the area the most likely cause would appear to be the contaminated water. Unfortunately corporate greed and government inertial will almost certainly ensure that none of the washed up dead fish are tested for contamination

 

[GrauGeist]

But why only sardines and mackerel?

There's a vast amount of other species that would have been affected if it were radiation.

And mass Sardine die-offs have occurred in other areas off Japan's coastline before, too.

 

[ThomasP]

The small volume of radioactive water from Fukushima that was dumped in to the ocean would dilute within a day, and become so not-dangerous that there is no way it is responsible for the fish dying off Hokkaido. In actuality, even if the fish swam through the radioactive water as it was being dumped into the ocean, it would be very unlikely that any number would die - quite likely none would die.

Also, the kind/level of radiation that would kill mass numbers of fish simultaneously would leave the fish obviously radioactive.

 

[MiTasol]

That makes sense.

So is it volcanic activity? The old slow boiled frog syndrome

 

[ThomasP]

Disclaimer: I am not a marine biologist/zoologist

Sardines eat planktons.

Pacific Mackerel eat planktons and sardines (among a host of other things).

If the die off of large amounts of sardines and some mackerel is food chain related, then it would have to be something that affects the planktons. There are occasional events called toxic algae blooms, which are often a form of phytoplankton that are inimical to other life - particularly animals that eat the phytoplankton.

If it is not plankton related, then it would have to be some other environmental factor.

AIUI, usually in the past the mass die offs of sardines have been due to oxygen starvation, chemical toxins (natural or human in origin), or toxic algae(phytoplankton) blooms.

I would think that if the current mass of sardines had died from toxic algae(phytoplankton) blooms it would be immediately detectable in autopsy. Oxygen starvation or some form of chemical toxin might take some time to figure out - particularly depending on how decomposed the fish are.

Maybe?

 

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I'm not saying it has nothing to do with Fukushima, however, another option is a dead zone similar to the one off the coast of Louisiana. All the agricultural runoff from the Midwest in the Mississippi River (and probably petrochemicals as well) has created a massive dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. The waters are simply O2 starved.

Explaining the Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone

Every summer, a low-oxygen area, often referred to as a Dead Zone, develops off of the Texas-Louisiana shelf. Here's what you need to know:

mississippiriverdelta.org

 

[GrauGeist]

California has a cold current that travels down from the north and on occasion, it shifts a little bit during El Niño years.

When it does, it catches schools of smaller warm water fish off guard, stunning them and they eventually die and wash ashore.

 

[Greg Boeser]

Nature is a bitch.

 

[MiTasol]

and, Mother Nature, being female, is fickle.

 

[Shinpachi]

Latest news on the Hokkaido fish kill.

Fujioka Takashi of the Hakodate Fisheries Research Institute notes fish die-offs are not uncommon. He says the school of fish could have been chased ashore by predators such as dolphins and tuna, or it may have suddenly encountered frigid waters.

Fujioka emphasizes that it's unlikely seawater from Fukushima would ever reach Hakodate, which is more than 600 km away. He also points out that no abnormalities have been detected in sardines caught in the Hakodate area.

Hokkaido fish kill unrelated to release of Fukushima Daiichi treated water | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News

Thousands of dead sardines and mackerel washed up on the coast of Hakodate City in Hokkaido on December 7. A British tabloid has insinuated that the release of treated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant over 600 kilometers away is related to the fish die-off. Japanese experts...

www3.nhk.or.jp

 

[Wurger]

I'm afrad that's the ゴジラ, my firend. Nothing else could scare fish in the way these jumped out of the water.

 

[Shinpachi]

Suzuki-san gets angry - this was the prototype of the latest Godzilla


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EA9dahpeGlQ

 

[SaparotRob]

They used Godzilla's original theme music too!

 

[Wurger]

 

[Shinpachi]

A dragon's phase appears on a 800 year old tree in a local shrine recently.
Local people are happy as the year of 2024 is a year of dragon in zodiac.

樹齢800年以上の御神木に現れたのは「龍」！初詣を待たずして参拝客が押し寄せる事態に【岡山・真庭市】　 | ニュース 岡山・香川 | RSK山陽放送 (1ページ)

岡山県真庭市の神社のご神木に、突如「ある生き物」が姿を現しました。その生き物は「干支の十二支の一つ」だとか。11月に、とあるテレビ番組で紹介された写真をきっかけに「これはすごい」と、いま岡山県の内外か… (1ページ)

newsdig.tbs.co.jp

 

[Shinpachi]

Shohei Ohtani - Man of 101.5 Billion Yen.
He is now too big for his fans to imagine his future bride.

700 million dollars for a player? That's insame.

MSN

 

[A4K]

700 million dollars for a player? That's insame.

Yep.
(I wonder how much how much he gets out of that)

 

[GrauGeist]

Shohei Ohtani - Man of 101.5 Billion Yen.
He is now too big for his fans to imagine his future bride.

700 million dollars for a player? That's insame.

He left my home team and joined the Dodgers, who I do not like.

I am unhappy about this.