Tons of dead herring that washed up on a Norwegian beach on New Year's Eve are now gone, and no one is sure how they got there or where they went.
Local resident Jan-Petter Jorgensen told Norway's TV2 he went to look at the thousands and thousands of fish after seeing a Facebook posting about them, according to a report on The Foreigner.
Joregensen said it was fortunate the icy cold prevented the mass of dead fish from raising a stink.
âIt is 15 degrees below zero today, so the cold means they donât smell. Nevertheless, the smell will be pretty intense in the long run,â he said, according to The Foreigner report.
Turns out that wasn't a problem. Views and News from Norway reports that as of Tuesday, most of the dead fish were gone, perhaps pushed out to sea by tides and winds. The local mayor said they'll likely sink in the ocean, according to the report.
Why they came to be on the shore remains a mystery.
Jens Christian Holst of the Institute of Marine Research in Norway told Norwegian Broadcasting the herring may have been chased ashore by predators, the Views and News report said.
âIn this area, we know there is a lot of (pollock) that graze on (herring),â he said.
Seems like a reasonable explanation.
Of course, on the Web there are always more troubling theories around, including that the deaths could be the first sign the end of the world is coming in 2012, as some believe ancient Mayan prophecy predicts.
"Great Fisher's of men" , was the first thing that popped into my mind when I saw this picture.
aww, look at the puppy popped into my mind
It's very simple.
The same aliens who brought the fish decided that they had been eating too much red meat, so they retrieved the fish.
"Sebastian saw God that summer in the Encantados."
–Tennessee Williams, SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER
This story sounds fishy to me.
This is just a warning of what is yet to come in 2012.
http://andreasmoser.wordpress.com/2012/01/01/2012-warning/
@ bobcat (in a hat)© 11:13 post
@ Joey Isotta-Fraschini ©âą, Well read, are we? đ
@ Hawaii Five O:
Love your state.
@ Joey Isotta-Fraschini ©⹠, And a good sense of taste! đ lol
@ Joey Isotta-Fraschini ©⹠, And a good sense of taste! đ lol
problem posting !!!! Errrr
That is most definitely NOT what the Maya predicted. The end of the 4th age is the start of the 5th. That the time of transition be one of major changes is just the perception of what qualifies as major. "Normal" in this day and age is defined by our ability to report every incidence, immediately. Thus, we are more aware of what is going on around us, all the time. The real question is: "What can we do with this knowledge?"
@PJB
The better question is, What "will" we do with this knowledge?
Voyons...what can we do with this knowledge...
I'm receiving a parapsychological image of sushi, but it's wrapped in plastic...
@ Matt, lol
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@ Hawaii Five O:
It's the two cups of Kona coffee.
Love Maui.
When were you there? and did you get to see Kanui Hawaii ?
@jif and bobcat iah top of the morning to you two.Watch out about eating lox.Someone already gatherd them up for lox factory. LOL