[Coral-List] Mass mortality of fish and coral in the Sucre state, Venezuela

[monikafranck at email.com]

Hi

Here in Zanzibar there are also fish dying and washing up on shore.  
Can not quantify amounts though, I have heard from locals and have seen 
this myself.

They might be dying of heat stroke, as some of them are found swimming 
around aimlessly and sluggishly, breathing heavily, otherwise nothing 
else visibly wrong with the fish.

It is also much hotter than usual here for this time of year according 
to the locals, who are picking these fish off the beach and eating 
them, so these fish have not been poisoned or the locals would be dying 
too.

This might be a global incident, not only in the Caribbean?

best wishes
Monika Franck
Ecological Projects
Msc, MEM

-----Original Message-----
From: RainbowWarriorsInternational <southern_caribbean at yahoo.com>
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov; Ángel Rafael Fariña Pestano 
<afarina46 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 6:49 pm
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] Mass mortality of fish and coral in the Sucre 
state, Venezuela

Dear Angel,

You mention high torrential rains and sedimentation which makes me 
suspect that a possible agent in the runoff into the sea may be partly 
responsible.

Have water samples been taken to check on chemicals?

The Cartagena Convention LBS has entered into force and applies to 
Venezuela as well and could be used to justify taking water samples of 
the runoff at various locations and sampling of the seawater as well.

Start with checking for possible point sources of pollution and how the 
possible runoff might be reaching coastal waters.

Milton Ponson, President
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
(Rainbow Warriors International) Tel. +297 568 5908
PO Box 1154, Oranjestad
Aruba, Dutch Caribbean
Email: southern_caribbean at yahoo.com    http://www.rainbowwarriors.net

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life

--- On Tue, 11/9/10, Ángel Rafael Fariña Pestano <afarina46 at yahoo.com> 
wrote:

From: Ángel Rafael Fariña Pestano <afarina46 at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Coral-List] Mass mortality of fish and coral in the Sucre 
state, Venezuela
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Date: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:43 AM

Hi. I want to report a mass mortality of fish and coral in the Sucre 
state, at the east of Venezuela. Stone corals and zonathids are 
affected. Fishes of several taxa are dying. The situation started from 
about three weeks ago and do not finish. The temperature values are 
above those expected for this time at the area. A high sedimentation as 
a result of torrential rains is added to this situation. Somebody knows 
another places near from here with the same problem? There may be other 
elements besides temperature influence on the problem?


Ángel Rafael Fariña Pestano
    Departamento de Biología
         Escuela de Ciencias
           Núcleo de Sucre
      Universidad de Oriente
               Venezuela


     
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