Updated March 8
(Jan 13) More than 3,000 fish were found dead in Ghana. (Source)
(Jan 13) The World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) has confirmed that H5N1, the highly pathogenic avian influenza virus, in a Bhutanese village The outbreak was first noticed on the 30th of December, when 87 chickens succumbed at backyard poultry farm near a national highway. (Source)
(Jan 13) Possibly hundreds of dead fish reported in a pond at Oglebay Park. The park covers nearly 1,700 acres of Ohio County. (Source)
(Jan 12) Officials from the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission are attempting to determine what killed about 20 steelhead trout last week in Sixteen Mile Creek.(Source)
(Jan 11) A Cuvier’s Beaked Whale was discovered beached in Connemara, UK. This the second whale to be found in Connemara since Christmas; a Sperm whale was found on Omey Island on December 28. (Source)
(Jan 10) Hundreds of dead and dying fish, and other marine life, mysteriously washed up onto the Montague foreshore in Bahamas yesterday. Young fish littered the shoreline including; snappers, minnows, barracudas and even an octopus. Fishermen said the seabed is also littered with dead fish. (Source)
(Jan 10) NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center announced the 2011 estimate for the endangered Cook Inlet beluga whale population of only 284 animals, almost 20 percent lower than last year’s estimate of 340 whales. The number is the second-lowest since NOAA’s surveys began in 1993; the lowest was in 2005, when the estimate was 278 whales. (Source)
(Jan 10) In the past few weeks, around 2,000 poultry birds have died on a farm in western Meghalaya, India. Now forty more birds have died in the same farm and the cause of death has not been established.” (Source)
Deadly H5N1 virus found: Bird flu alert level raised to serious
(Jan 10) A LARGE sea turtle was found perched up against the seawall rocks and dead at Gunnamatta Bay in New South Wales, Australia. (Source)
(Jan 9 )The Japan Coast Guard isn’t sure what it is but it may be a whale found floating near the Aomi Container Wharf in Koto-ku. The wharf is right across from the landfill where the Tokyo Metropolitan government has been dumping the radioactive ashes from the incinerators and radioactive debris from Iwate and Miyagi. Some Japanese are getting nervous, not because of radiation but because the March 11, 2011 earthquake was preceded by beaching of whales. (Source)
(Jan 9) A large number of fish were found dead in a three-kilometer section of the Xijiang River in the southern province of Guangdong, China. (Source)
(Jan 9) A 12ft female pilot whale was put to sleep after attempts to rescue it from the shore at Tyninghame in Scotland, UK, failed. (Source)
(Jan 8) More than 165 animals in Mana Pools National Park in the lower Zambezi Valley in Zimbabwe have died due to an anthrax outbreak over the past few weeks. Parks and Wildlife Management Authority confirmed the death of elephants, hippos, buffaloes and kudus. (Source)
(Jan 9) Hundreds of fish were seen floating along a canal in Big Bend, Swaziland, after chemical was spilled into the water source. (Source)
(Jan 8) In northeast Montana, officials said 90 percent or more of whitetail have been killed along a 100-mile stretch of the Milk River from Malta to east of Glasgow. Whitetail deaths also have been reported along the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in western North Dakota and eastern Montana and scattered sites in Wyoming, South Dakota and eastern Kansas. The deaths are being attributed to an outbreak of epizootic hemorrhagic disease, or EHD. Transmitted by biting midges, EHD causes internal bleeding that can kill infected animals within just a few days. (Source)
(Jan 8) Three dolphins, two of them dead, were found separately on beaches in the eastern county of Taitung in Taiwan. (Source)
(Jan 7) South Korea’s farm ministry said Saturday that bird flu did not cause the spike in dead ducks at a local poultry farm earlier in the week. The farm in Icheon some 80 kilometers east of Seoul reported 110 dead birds from Sunday through Tuesday, causing local quarantine authorities to seal off the immediate area and prevent movement of all birds. (Source)
(Jan 7) More than a quintal or 100kg of dead fish were found floating today in the Gholani river at Kumargram in Jalpaiguri, India. (Source)
(Jan 7) Seven long-finned pilot whales died after being beached in New Zealand, but rescuers were confident Saturday they had saved the other 18 marine mammals that stranded. (Source)
(Jan 6) A 25-foot-long whale washed up on a beach in Birchington, Kent, UK. (Source)
(Jan 5) A total of 17 dead oil-soaked guillemots have been found washed ashore on the Western Isles in Scotland. The birds are turning up on beaches and shorelines along a 100-mile stretch . Coastguards say there are no reports of an oil spill at sea and a search along the Uist coastline has revealed no trace of pollution. (Source)
(Jan 4) A large dead whale washed ashore on the Thallala beach in Matara, Sri Lanka. (Source)
(Jan 4) Massachusetts state biologists are unsure what caused the death of about 16 swans near Mill Pond in Westborough late last month. (Source)
(Jan 4) A 6ft BLUE SHARK which was saved at West Bay in Dorset, UK, was later found dead washed up on the beach at Burton Bradstock. (Source)
(Jan 4) The Queensland Government in Australia is investigating the discovery of more dead fish in a Gladstone waterway. The Department of Environment and Resource Management imposed a local fishing ban when sick fish were found in Gladstone Harbour in recent months. (Source)
(Jan 4) Scores of devotees who had gone to worship river Yamuna in Agra, India, early Saturday morning were shocked at the sight of thousands of dead fish near the Balkeshwar Ghat, Heaps of dead fish were also noticed at village Narhauli near Farah in Mathura district. (Source)
(Jan 4) Hundreds of dead gizzard shad were floating on de Neveu Creek near Stow Street in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. (Source)
(Jan 3) It’s been a record twelve months for strandings of dolphins and whales along the coastlines around Ireland. The Irish Whale and Dolphin Group said there was a total of 160 strandings and 1,565 sightings reported by end of 2011 – the highest since the recording scheme was established in 1991. (Source)
(Jan 2) Tens of thousands of dead herring have carpeted a stretch of coast in northern Norway – and then disappeared again.The fish appeared on New Year’s Eve, leading to speculation that predators might have driven a huge school ashore or the fish could have been washed onto the beach by a powerful storm that hit Norway on Christmas Day. (Source)
(Jan 2) A baby humpback whale washed up on the beach in Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan. (Source)
(Jan 1) Marine life is suffering in the Gulf of Thailand. Following the worst flooding in the country in decades, millions of cubic metres of extra water has been draining into the gulf causing shellfish and other fish to die or swim away. (Source)
(Jan 1) Authorities in a central Arkansas town say about 100 blackbirds died on New Year’s Eve after being spooked by fireworks, far less than the four thousands that perished there a year ago. Officials say this time around criminal charges are possible if the suspects are found. (Source)
(Jan 1) Florida will finish the year with the second highest number of manatee deaths since record-keeping began in 1974. As of Dec. 23, the commission had recorded 444 manatee deaths. The record, 730, was set in 2010. (Source)
(Jan 1) A 18 feet whale, either a long finned pilot whale or a pothead whale, washed up on Stephenville Beach in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. (Source)
