Updated on March 8
(Jan 31) 46.5 tons of local Tilapia fish were found dead last Friday and 2.5 tons on Monday in Lake Sebu in The Philippines. Around 13 tons of Tilapia died last July under similar circumstances. (Source)
(Jan 31) At the edge of Sandholdt Road in Moss Landing, California, is a graveyard for a variety of rotting birds. People are alarmed by the sheer number and variety of dead birds. (Source)
(Jan 30) More than a ton of dead fish has been floating during last week at Canal dos Patos, the channel located between Macau and Zhuhai’s major cross-border area. According to TDM News, authorities have picked up almost 50 bags of dead fish since January 19 for testing. (Source)
(Jan 30) A popular Australian wetland in Melbourne’s north has been hit by a ‘black water’ event that has killed hundreds of fish. Local residents described the water just north of Edwardes Lake in Reservoir as jet black and smelling rotten. (Source)
(Jan 29) The death of 16 crows at Mudulipalli village in Odisha’s Ganjam district in the span of two hours triggered avian influenza scare in the area. With the crow deaths, a total of 42 birds of different species were found to be dead in the district, including pigeons, kite and pelican. (Source) (Jan 22) Hundreds of dead birds including crows, storks, pigeons and mynahs were seen in many nearby villages. (Source)
(Jan 28) Whether they got lost, sick or swam astray chasing food, 77 dolphins that beached on Cape Cod in recent weeks have died, the second time in three months New England has seen a mass of marine mammal deaths. Now, scientists are trying to figure out why. They’re also researching whether there’s any connection to a die-off this fall of 162 harbor seals, whose carcasses were found between northern Massachusetts and Maine. Scientists later determined the seal deaths were linked to an influenza virus similar to one found in birds but never before seen in seals. (Source)
(Jan 27) Since the beginning of the month, 14 marine mammals, including a dozen dolphins, have been found along the northern Gulf of Mexico. Half of the dead dolphins washed up on the Louisiana coast. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calls it an “Unusual Mortality Event” in the northern Gulf and next month will mark two years since it began. The tally so far: 630 dead. (Source)
(Jan 27) The carcasses of 64 dolphins and porpoises washed up along the Atlantic coast on the Aquitaine seashore in France. Around two-thirds of the carcasses so far found are those of common dolphins.(Source)
(Jan 27) A 3.5-foot female harbor porpoise washed up on the rocks at the far end of Fisherman’s Beach in Massachusetts, , the third dead porpoise in the last nine months to beach on these shores. (Source)
(Jan 27) More than 100 fish were found dead in a stream off the River Usk in Powys, UK. The fish and a large amount of silt were found in the stream, about a mile from Brecon. (Source)
(Jan 26) More than 10,000 dead fish were found in Tatebayashi city, about an hour from Tokyo. (Source)
(Jan 25) In what authorities believe is one of the worst fish-kills in recent times, a lot of Curiass is being washed up on the Guyanese and Surinamese foreshores, apparently due to murky Atlantic Ocean waters and the discharge of freshwater into the sea. (Source)
(Jan 25) Around 100 whales stranded at the Spit, on the northwest tip of the South Island in New Zealand, around midday on Monday. Thirty-four whales died overnight Monday, and while some did free themselves at high tide, about 40 remained beached yesterday. (Source)
(Jan 24) Low oxygen levels and hot weather are believed to have killed thousands of fish in Perth’s Swan River. About 5,000 dead fish were discovered between the Middle Swan Bridge and the Ellen Brook in the upper reaches of the river in Western Australia. (Source)
(Jan 24) A 65-foot fin whale, an endangered species, that washed ashore in Ocean City, N.J., apparently after colliding with a vessel. (Source)
(Jan 24) A 30-foot humpback whale died overnight in Fort Pierce after beaching himself on a sandbar in the inlet, according to the U.S. Coast Guard. (Source)
(Jan 24) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) confirmed the carcass of a dead off Na Pali Coast, Hawaii. (Source)
(Jan 23) When a single dolphin washed up on Cape Cod on Jan. 12, it was nothing out of the ordinary. By Jan. 23, the count was 85. Cape Cod is, like parts of New Zealand and Australia, a world hotspot for dolphin strandings. But so many dolphins washing up in less than two weeks — 61 of which were dead, killed by stress or injuries from the stranding — has baffled researchers, who have been working relentlessly with volunteers to rescue as many as possible. (Source)
(Jan 23) A sperm whale and a baby gray whale were found dead along the beach, along with one stellar sea lion along the Long Beach Peninsula in Washington State after high winds and heavy surf slammed the Oregon and Washington coastlines this past week. Several birds were also found dead on the beach and two were alive, but injured. (Source)
(Jan 23) Visitors to the Number 63 Beach have been raising concerns over the number of dead fishes – the decomposing remains of many species of fish, but largely those from the unscaled family – that littered along the beach. There was also one very large sting ray which recently washed ashore among a large quantity of small and large fishes. (Source)
(Jan 23) A 22-foot shark that washed up on a Shelburne County shore in Novo Scotia, Canada. The basking shark is the second largest fish in the world, second only to the whale shark, which is also a filter feeder. (Source)
(Jan 21) Four whales, believed to have been Beaked whales, died after stranding themselves ashore Papamoa Beach East in Tauranga, New Zealand. (Source)
(Jan 20) A FEARSOME piranha-like fish called Ray’s Bream, which is more at home in deep Icelandic waters, has been found washed up on a beach in Norfolk, UK. This is the fifth time the fish have been seen here in the past 35 years. (Source)
(Jan 19) Three tonnes of dead fish washes up on Bossaso’s shore on Tuesday, Radio Garowe reports. Somalia has the longest coast in Africa and has huge number of commercial fish species. (Source)
(Jan 19) Large numbers of dead fish in the ponds and creeks at Lantana in Highland Village, Texas, were result of water temperatures dropping below 50 degrees. Almost all of the dead fish were tilapia. (Source)
(Jan 19) An estimated 20,000 birds have now been killed by the wrecked container ship MV Rena, causing New Zealand’s worst ever maritime environmental disaster. The wreck foundered off the Bay of Plenty coast, near Tauranga, North Island, last October, and more birds are being killed and harmed since the wreck broke up on January 8. (Source)
(Jan 18) The bodies of 51 New Zealand fur seal pups and two young adults were found washed up near Port Lincoln and at Wanna Beach in South Australia. But the creatures are so badly decomposed it may not be possible to determine how they died. (Source)
(Jan 17) Federal biologists announced today that up to 6.7 million bats in 16 states and four Canadian provinces may have died from the white-nose fungus since it was detected six years ago, a die-off that a conservationist today called “a potential extinction event,” The Washington Post reports. (Source)
(Jan 30) Two dead dolphins were spotted a week apart floating in the narrow channel between El Gouna, Egypt. (Source)
(Jan 16) PENGUINS on Kangaroo Island are disappearing at an alarming rate and locals are blaming New Zealand fur seals. At last count there were 60 adults and 30 chicks, fewer than half the numbers two years ago. Granite Island’s penguin population has also been decimated. (Source)
(Jan 16) A southern Russian farm had to slaughter all 30,736 of its pigs because of African swine fever (ASF)and the virus keeps marching across the country. (Source)
(Jan 16) A baby gray whale that became separated from its mother was found beached on Salinas River State Beach in California. (Source)
(Jan 16) A spotted dolphin that had beached itself on a northwest Florida beach earlier this month was found dead less than a week after being released. (Source)
(Jan 15) An animal welfare organization says up to 30 dolphins have been found stranded on five Cape Cod beaches, 10 to 12 have died and eight were inaccessible to rescuers. (Source)
(Jan 15) A dead fin whale, nearly nine metres long and weighs some 5,000 kilos, was found in the harbour of Vlissingen in the south-western province of Zeeland in the Netherlands. It is extremely rare for a fin whale to wash up on Dutch shores. Just 30 cases have been recorded since the fourteenth century and the last time was eleven years ago. (Source)
(Jan 14) A loggerhead turtle, listed as an endangered species, washed up in Cornwall, UK. It was just 26.5cm long and the 215th to be found in the UK and Ireland. (Source)
(Jan 13) South Africa’s ostrich farmers are struggling to cope after thousands of their birds were culled during one of the country’s worst outbreaks of bird flu. The biggest market for South Africa’s ostrich meat – have crashed since the EU banned the import of the low-cholesterol meat to stop the virus spreading. (Source)
