Pompano
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Baitfish die-off happening now in Coyote Bay
This was the scene that greeted me yesterday as I walked across my seaside patio to the seawall....it kind of surprised me! Wow...
Thousands of silver scad baitfish littered the shoreline for hundreds of yards in both directions...and more were floating ashore on the waves and
tide.
I can only surmise at this point what may have caused this massive die-off of just this particular school of baitfish.
Any thoughts or facts out there?
I am guessing something related to water temps, an algae bloom created toxin, a curse from Neptune.......or the radiation from Japan's leaking nuke
plants. 
Not much was eating these washed-up baitfish...just 1 or 2 buzzards...and this ravan, who kept taking one dead fish away at a time and returning
shortly for another. Must be a hoarder...
The raven surprised me by flying by so close...and I was unable to focus for this quick shot.
This event kind of reminds of a similar scene on this beach in 1988. That was a huge die-off of small red crabs (known locally as langostinos).
Those red crabs died and washed up on all the beaches from here to Loreto..who knows how many millions died? All our beaches had a 3-foot-wide red
swath of dead crabs. Again..nothing was eating them.
Hope we can solve this baitfish mystery. Any ideas?
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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Maybe seiner spilled his catch?
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biblical plague? pestilence? sun spots?
formerly Ordained in Rev. Ewing\'s Church by Mail - busted on tax fraud.......
Now joined L. Ron Hoover\'s church of Appliantology
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This recently happened in ca...before the nuke leak.
they figured it was too many fish in a same location and the fish depleted the oxygen supply.
I hope it's not the nuke leak... I h8 nuke power plants may there never
be another!
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when we drove by and flew over the bay on friday we saw gigantic schools of bait as far as the eye could see...more than i ever remember seeing....we
also saw huge swirls of brown and red algae everywhere so there might be a tie in here..that would be my guess.
dyslexia is never having to say you\'re yrros.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by mulegemichael
when we drove by and flew over the bay on friday we saw gigantic schools of bait as far as the eye could see...more than i ever remember seeing....we
also saw huge swirls of brown and red algae everywhere so there might be a tie in here..that would be my guess. |
Hopefully they just depleted the oxygen supply...or died of sex overdose...Maybe the bait was having a giant orgy.
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Somebody poured out all their rum in the bay?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaGringo
Somebody poured out all their rum in the bay? |
Hah!...Ron, that just made me spit come coffee!! 
I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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oldlady
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Me too, a typical "Ron Rico"!
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BajaBlanca
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Ron - that is funny ...
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Probably caused by the nuke leak in Japan.... What is the water temperature down there now?
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Pomp:
I remember other "Die-offs" from Mulege To South of Loreto and most of the Old time Mexicano Fisherman claimed that it was a Lack of Oxygen from such
a Mass of Fish.
Notice some of them have their Mouth open as if they were trying to suck in Air??
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Cypress
Maybe seiner spilled his catch? |
There was a seiner making sets out there the day before and the wind was right to blow spillage or dumped nets that way. Lots of bait everywhere right
now and if there are plankton blooms I think that maybe the cause. Nothing on our beaches yet.
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Usually these type of die offs are caused by a lack of oxygen due to something like an algae or plankton bloom.
Miguelamo 
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I predict a big earthquake in the Sea of Cortez within the next two weeks. 
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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Hola, had the similar type of thing in redondo beach harbor with blankets of dead sardines.
possible cause....domoic ( ? ) poisening something or other ?
hasn't happened again since.
BIEN SALUD, DA RAT
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signs of environmental stress
Old people are like the old cars, made of some tough stuff. May show a little rust, but good as gold on the inside.
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