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California leopard shark deaths trouble scientists
More than 100 leopard sharks have washed up dead over the past month around California's San Francisco Bay Area, according to a conservation and research group working with scientists to determine a cause.
At least four of the spotted creatures are being examined by a Department of Fish and Game pathologist now, said Sean Van Sommeran, executive director of the Pelagic Shark Research Foundation. Three of the sharks undergoing analysis have signs of infection in their digestive and nervous systems, Van Sommeran said.
"Leopard sharks are typically very tough and are rarely susceptible to getting sick," he said. "So this is alarming. The infection seems to come in through the nose and affects their eyes, blinding them and half-paralyzing them so that they cannot keep themselves from coming up on the shore with the tide."
He said it's possible that the canals in which the sharks sometimes swim are polluted with stagnant water where bacteria can thrive. If it's a matter of cleaning the water, that can be accomplished by installing aerators or other equipment.
Because the sharks live in salt water, there is no threat to the human water supply, he stressed.
Van Sommeran said it's likely that more than 100 sharks have been affected. An untold number may still be in the water or have already decomposed.
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I wonder if they eat whatever it was that washed up last time.. Some kind of fish, can't remember. Maybe the sharks are having to look where they haven't before..
You don't have to examine anything Mr. Scientist, I TvNYC use common sense and all of this is caused by BP oil spill and Daiichi nuclear plant meltdowns. Soon our babies are gonna come out disformed and our food and drinking water will be so tainted that we will die from starvation and hydration! Good luck and I hope you believe in God
I’m sick of the banasy getting on here and telling us how she is blessed with a wonderful family and spouting out personal nonsense. And this pollution with her gang of buddies is sickening. They need to go to a chatroom or start their own personal blogs.
Banasy, you and your sista should go to the library and put books on the shelves. Do something useful for once. Txt or call your buddies. Just get off of these blogs.
Poor sharks, bacteria can kill you. ********troll alert: yellow********
Shut up Michael. You are getting on my nerves. At least read the article, dooch bag.
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I’m serious about being sick of banasy getting on here and telling us how she is blessed with a wonderful family and spouting out personal nonsense. And this pollution with her gang of buddies is sickening. They need to go to a chatroom or start their own personal blogs.
Banasy, you and your sista should go to the library and put books on the shelves. Do something useful for once. Txt or call your buddies. Just get off of these blogs.
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I'm seriously sick in love with banasy.
I love how banasy gets on here and tells us how she is blessed with a wonderful family and telling us her stories.
And the rapport with her gang of buddies is so fun to read.
They should to do it more!
Banasy, you and your sista sound like people I'd like to meet online.
Do me a favor and tell me how to make friends.
Txt or call your buddies and tell them I need friends!
Don't ever get off of these blogs.
Save the fish although its a part natural selection not every animal will live some just die of course pollution should be cleaned up. If we can help we should if the pollutions is a man made problem.
Natural selection would imply that these sharks are being weeded out through a natural process that they are not fit to adapt to. Human pollution and stagnation of canals is not a natural cause, and should not be dismissed as the natural order of things.
I don't, and 'what, me worry?'
That was for TvNYC
There does seem to be a plethora of birds and aquatic life turning up dead lately, doesn't it?
Not sure what's going on, but what TvNYC said has some merit; the oil spill and the Japanese Nuclear disaster probably has something to do with the sharks.
Hosea 4:3
"Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish, with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of heaven; yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away."
not here to start a debate as qouting this book tends to do I just thought of this verse when I read your post and wanted to share it with you. Thank you for your time.