MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

“ROSWELL, N.M. (KRQE) – Something mysterious is happening at Bottomless Lakes State Park. Lea Lake is closed to swimming after hundreds of dead fish started washing up on shore Friday.

An empty lake on a hot summer day is an unusual sight for Lea Lake, which is normally packed with swimmers this time of year.

‘It is extremely weird to see it this empty,’ explained lifeguard Leonardo Granados. ‘Even on weekdays there’s still quite a few people that come out. Weekends, that’s the worst whenever there’s the most people, probably about 200 people come out,’ Granados said, referring to how packed Lea Lake usually is.

Granados has been a lifeguard at Bottomless Lakes for three years. With the recent fish-kill, his duties have changed from making sure people in the lake are safe, to keeping an eye out for dead fish.

‘We use a net, put on some gloves, we’ve got this little trash picker-up and just use that to pick up the fish,’ Granados said.

A fish kill like this has never happened before in this area. Lifeguards said they noticed something strange when the normal group of fish that used to hang out right next to the dock, weren’t there anymore.” Read more.

By Michael Milnes – “THOUSANDS of dead fish have washed up along 8km of Lake Alexandrina’s shore.

With the health of the River Murray and Lower Lake system at its best in years, the mass ‘fish kill’ is a mystery.

Point Sturt resident Dot Ratcliffe said she was alarmed to find the problem when she went kayaking on the lake yesterday morning. ‘I saw them (extending) about 400m out in to the lake,’ she said.

‘It’s terribly upsetting, very distressing. There are thousands of fish washed up, something you do not want to see. I have been living here for 10 years and never seen anything like this.’

Bio-security aquatic pest manager Vic Neverauskas said Primary Industries would investigate the circumstances of the fish deaths as soon as possible. Most of the fish appear to be bony bream.” Read more.

Georgia, Tbilisi, August 3 / Trend N. Kirtskhalia – “Massive quantities of dead fish have been resolved in Adjara, where several hundred kilograms of dead fish were found in lakes near Batumi during the last two days.

The local authorities have begun studying this issue.

The cause was asphyxia, the decrease of oxygen concentration in the water due to intense heat, the Ministry of the Environment told media.

Damage caused by the dead fish has not been accounted for.” Source.

“AFP – Dozens of wild boars have turned up dead this month around a beach in western France, officials say, as they suspect poisonous blue-green algae for the deaths.

Three dead boars were found on Wednesday at the mouth of the Gouessant estuary in Brittany, an AFP journalist witnessed, bringing to 31 the number found this month, floating in the water or washed up in the area.

The nearby beach has been closed for safety, its cove stinking with algae which give off a poisonous gas when they rot.

‘One of the theories we have is that the animals could have drunk water that could contain algae,’ said Gilles Buet, a Brittany water official.

‘They were not sick and they did not drown,’ said local police official Philippe De Gestas.

‘We found two carcasses in the morning, then five more, then it went up to 17’ and later 18, he said on Tuesday.” Read more.

“The mass death of chickens and ducks on a small island next to the US Army’s missile testing range in the Marshall Islands is perplexing health and environment officials.

The sudden and unexplained deaths of nearly 100 chickens on Enibooj Island — which has a population of less than 200 people living a largely subsistence lifestyle — sparked an investigation earlier this week by Ministry of Health and Marshall Islands Environmental Protection Authority [EPA] officials.

‘More than 85 chickens and ducks were found dead and buried on the island of Enibooj from 1 Jul to 18 Jul 2011,’ reported Ebeye Hospital’s Dr Tom Jack and EPA’s Ebeye chief environmental specialist Odrikawa Jatios on Wednesday [20 Jul 2011] after touring the island that US cartographers refer to as Carlson. Samples of the dead bird carcasses were taken for laboratory testing.

Kwajalein [Atoll] senator Tony deBrum sought an investigation of the apparent outbreak of disease among fowls on the island late last week, saying ‘dead chickens in a small community should be a matter of emergency health concerns.’

The island is located about 3 miles away from the headquarters island of the Reagan Test Site, a major missile testing facility operated by the US Army.” Read more.

“SEYMOUR, IN (WAVE)- Imagine thousands of fish literally turn up dead in a lake near your home. That’s just what happened at a lake in Seymour, Indiana. So, our viewers called us asking us to get answers.

Neighbors say they’ve never seen anything like this before.

Stinking, dead fish giving off a foul odor and floating in the lake is what Corey Lanier and his neighbors came across this weekend

‘It was just a very overwhelming…just rotten fish smell,’ Corey Lanier said ‘We could smell it across the street from the lake.’

Lanier and others live near Mutton Creek neighborhood lake. It sits behind their homes in Seymour.

‘As soon as we walked over, there were thousands of dead fish floating in the pond,’ Lanier said.

Lanier estimates 2,000- 3,000 of them.

‘I’ve never seen this many dead fish in one lake floating,’ Lanier said.” Read more.

By Natalie Poyhonen – “The coastline of north Queensland is usually picture perfect in winter, but there is a problem in the shallows.

Over the past few months sick, lethargic and sometimes dead sea turtles have been washing up onto the region’s beaches.

Experts are trying to find out what is killing off the animals, but they suspect years of extreme weather may be playing a role and events like Cyclone Yasi have destroyed large tracts of essential seagrass.

Dead and dying turtles washing up on shore is becoming a regular sight for Barbara Gibbs, who lives on Magnetic Island off the coast of Townsville.

‘My daughter and I were so excited seeing this large number of turtles in close, but they just kept hanging in close,’ she said.

‘When we were over our first initial excitement, my daughter remembered that a marine biologist had told her the night before about this problem and them hanging in close like that, because they were right up to our feet, that that meant that they were dying.’

Ms Gibbs says she has come across 20 turtles suffering in the same way over the past two months.” Read more.