This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Friday, 11 March 2011
Packing 'Em In!
There was a weird occurrence in King Harbor at Redondo Beach in California (http://hermosabeach.patch.com/articles/half-of-dead-sardines-removed-from-redondos-king-harbor ) when a giant school of sardines entered the location and died (apparently of suffocation by exhausting the oxygen in the water). A local fire fighter (they do more in the US) speculated that the fish had entered the harbour in an attempt to avoid the high winds in the area but the effects of the wind do not penetrate very far into the depths. They could equally have been attempting to escape predators (such as cetaceans). One might even think they anticipated the tsunami!
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