A Billion Seashore Animals Cooked Alive During Pacific Northwest Heat Wave

[turbinetree]

Aila Slisco - Yesterday 11:42 PM

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More than a billion ocean animals living along the pacific coast may have been killed during the recent unprecedented heat wave in the Northwest.

Chris Harley, a marine biologist from the University of British Columbia, told CBC on Monday that he was "stunned" by the putrid stench of death and the sight of tens of thousands of dead clams, snails, mussels and sea stars at a Vancouver beach in late June. Harley said that more than 1 billion aquatic creatures may have perished along the coast of the Salish Sea alone, an area that includes sections of western British Columbia and Washington state.

"A mussel on the shore in some ways is like a toddler left in a car on a hot day," Harley told the outlet. "They are stuck there until the parent comes back, or in this case, the tide comes back in and there's very little they can do. They're at the mercy of the environment. And on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, during the heat wave, it just got so hot that the mussels, there was nothing they could do.

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We are so screwed....

[roamer65]

1. So...with this all happening and it will continue to happen...

How are we going to feed 8 billion people?

Answer: we won’t.

[CrispyQ]

2. I have no words for stories like this. It's so heartbreaking.

The Republican Party has the power & influence to completely change the lack of action on climate change but they do nothing. Worse. They deny & obstruct while our planet burns.

[mopinko]

3. last summer i had a few dozen chicks cook in their shells.

i also had a couple that were put in storage cabinet that is usually cool that hatched.
finally got some rain here, but it's been brutal so far this year, too.

[KS Toronado]

4. If this is an indication of what is happening because of climate change

Could the worlds fishing industry and the people they feed be in trouble?

[KT2000]

5. Yes - commercial

aquaculture took a big hit too. Waterfront property is not such a score when the tide flats smell awful until the decomposition is done.

[pandr32]

6. I worried about this

Also the effect on bird hatchlings and baby animals. Insects, too.

[Submariner]

7. Keep taking the Krill Oil supplements to starve and kill the whales

so you feel all warm and fuzzy about your Omega-3 levels. There is still a little bit of krill left, but the big die offs of the gigantic Blue Whale and the Right Whale, and other krill eaters, is just around the corner.