'Devastating' dolphin loss in Florida red tide disaster

[DonViejo]

Source: Agence France-Presse



15 AUG 2018

A state of emergency has been declared in Florida as the worst red tide in a decade blackens the ocean water, killing dolphins, sea turtles and fish at a relentless pace.

More than 100 tons of dead sea creatures have been shoveled up from smelly, deserted beaches in tourist areas along Florida's southwest coast this month alone. In just the past week, 12 dolphins washed ashore dead in Sarasota County, typically the toll seen in an entire year.

"It is physically and mentally exhausting," said Gretchen Lovewell, who is in charge of a skeleton crew at Mote Marine Laboratory that collects dead or distressed sea turtles and marine mammals.

She and two colleagues "have been literally working around the clock," Lovewell added.

Read more: https://www.afp.com/en/news/23/devastating-dolphin-loss-florida-red-tide-disaster-doc-18e0141

[mcar]

1. Fck you, Scott!

[GusBob]

2. Source: an overseas agency. Speaks volumes

This ain't fake news is it?

Reason: that is Florida Red country in more ways than one hey?

[yonder]

7. +1.

[StarryNite]

3. Devastating

[hlthe2b]

4. Damn, damn, damn...

First all the whale losses and now the dolphins.

and, we'll do NOTHING.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Greedy idiots responsible in every instance. Why do they always escape the suffering they cause?

If only someone could drag them to the beach, and force them to confront the evil they do, face to dead faces, force them to spend a day there without escape, maybe helping people to clean the dead fish away from the sand and water..... maybe sitting beside the body of one of the intelligent mammals they have caused to die a horrific death in fear, and unbearable pain.

Even that would not allow them to sense the extend of the horror of their crimes against life, against innocence.

They derive their wealth by violently stealing the lives of innocent helpless beings, stealing their youth, their well-being and forcing them into terror and suffering. That's quite a price they force the world to pay for their own good times.

Who wouldn't hate these selfish perverts?

[Duppers]

10. ...

Damn straight, Judi.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Trump's red tide

Toxic to all

[Submariner]

8. But Rick Scott saved probably a couple of million dollars in salaries

by firing all the scientists within the Dept of Environmental Conservation and Water Management Districts that used to enforce the water quality protection regulations that Scott scrapped.

Now all that money he saved can be used for cleaning up dead manatees, sea turtles and fish.

Don't forget to be sure to vote for Rick Scott for senator now.

[pwb]

9. It's probably from all the oil and chemicals used by B P .

They used to sink the oil from the spill on deep water horizon. Nah the would have told us if the environment was damaged by all that shit they put in the water.

[modrepub]

11. Red Tide On the Gulf Coast

Has been a feature for decades, it's just finally getting noticed probably because it's so bad this summer. Went down to Venice almost a decade ago and it was the same problem; dead fish and smelly remains on any beach that wasn't raked daily. I suspect a lot of this is due to agricultural run off from the Mississippi River making it's way into the gulf.

I predict lots of expensive studies but little action. Have seen this pattern before; fund studies, blame the "other guy" then try and make somebody else pay for the clean up. That's the American way.