DUBLIN (Reuters) - Jellyfish wiped out Northern Ireland's only salmon farm, with more than 1 million pounds' ($2.06 million) worth of stock massacred in the attack. I blame Darth Cheney
The jellyfish, covering an area of around 10 square miles , engulfed the Northern Salmon Company's cages off the province's northeastern coast, suffocating 100,000 fish, the firm's Managing Director, John Russell, told Reuters on Thursday. Ahhh... suffocation! It must have been Joooooos!
"It was sheer devastation -- I've been 30 years in the salmon industry and I've never seen anything like it," Russell said. That's because you have never been up against the US 'War On Salmon™'
Staff on their way to give the fish their morning feed noticed a "reddish-brown tinge" to the sea and then realized the boats were struggling to make headway through an expanse of jellyfish up to 35 feet deep, Russell said. Halburton hasn't been able to make our jellyfish invisible yet
"A few hours later all our salmon were dead, the bulk of them suffocated." Bwa ha ha ha ha
The attack, by a type of jellyfish known as a "mauve stinger", happened late last week off the coast of County Antrim, an area popular with tourists. This was just a test run
The mauve stinger, noted for its purplish night-time glow, is more commonly found in warmer Mediterranean waters. Global warming...
Russell said the occurrence, when jellyfish "bloom" in such quantities, only happened every decade or so and last week's appearance off the Irish coast was also due to unusual environmental factors including higher-than-normal water temperatures. Alert Al Gore! Stat! If he comes, then it will snow and the 'jellyfish-with-lasers-mounted-on-their- heads will retreat in frustration and dispair...
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The attack, by a type of jellyfish known as a "mauve stinger", happened late last week off the coast of County Antrim, an area popular with tourists.
sounds like a gay jellyfish attack...
egads & ewww!
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I prefer open sea fish. Farmed fish are subject to flea infestations, and viral attacks. Fatty fish, like salmon, also lose some of the fat, which contributes to its flavor.
As for northern sightings of otherwise tropical fish, tuna has been found of Vancouver Island, Canada. Apparently, that hasn't happened before.
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LIVING, AS I HAVE, IN OREGON SOME 60 ODD YEARS, I KNOW WE HAVE HAD A TUNA FUSHERY OFF OUR COAST FOR MANY YEARS. VANCOUVER ISLE IS NOT SO FAR NORTH OF US. SOMETIMES THAT PESKY GLOBAL WARMING IS OLDER THAN IT SEEMS. SO SAYETH AN OLD CODGER!
Dude...yes he does. Tuna are a pelagic species, and found in all temperatures of water. McNozzle of Douche was spouting off...again...about something he doesn't know anything about.
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McZoid did use one of the words I find so useful, apparently. ;-) The odds are high around hereof someone knowing more on any subject imaginable.. and its happened once again in this thread. Thank you for sharing your expertise, Tholush Squank4616 and Mountain Penis5653.
But Tholush Squank4616, I discovered the hard way that the convention is that typing in all capitals is seen as shouting. Please don't, any more. I promise we'll pay attention, since you started so sensibly and knowledgeably. And welcome to you both, and the other new names I've seen here recently. It's so nice when new Rantburgers join the conversation! :-D
LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. -- A man was arrested after police said he yanked a woman's finger off during a purse snatching. Caesare R. Pinkins, 21, is being held without bond after being charged with multiple felony counts of robbery and aggravated battery.
Police said that on Wednesday afternoon, the woman was in the parking lot of a Kroger's grocery store in Lilburn, Ga. Lilburn is about 25 miles northeast of Atlanta. Police said Pinkins drove past up to the woman, grabbed the purse, and stepped on the gas. Gwinnett police Cpl. Illana Spellman said, "As the suspect drove away, one of the victim's fingers was pulled off." Doctors were unable to reattach the woman's finger.
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avoid extreme "pull my finger" stunts
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There have been several robberies in grocery and super store parking lots in Colorado Springs in the past few weeks. So be alert when shopping.
In a perfect justice system this robber dude would lose a hand or at least two fingers.
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Which reminds me of an old Arizona tale, of a cowboy who was out riding with his dog, when his horse saw a rattlesnake and bucked. He was thrown, but his fingers were caught in the reins. One finger was torn halfway off, the other clean off.
His dog grabbed the lost finger and ate it.
He wrapped his bleeding hand in a handkerchief and rode to the nearest doctor, a veterinarian, on the off chance he might sew the other one back on.
The vet took one look and said no, then detached the torn finger and tossed it into a silver tray before bandaging up the hand. But then, the vets large tomcat jumped on the table, snatched that finger and ran off.
So, that cowboy went down in the books as the only case of a man who had one finger eaten by a dog, and the other eaten by a cat, on the same day.
Efforts to save the black rhino from extinction have been dealt a blow by the killing of three adults who were part of a breeding programme in Zimbabwe.
The apparently gratuitous act has stopped the programme in its tracks, writes the BBC's John Kay. Isn't it the whole point?
Armed men in camouflage shot dead all three adult females
Charles Hamilton has tears in his eyes as he clicks through the images on his laptop.
It's hardly surprising. The pictures show all three of his family's adult black rhinos lying dead on the dusty floor. You can see the bullet-holes in their thick hides.
"It's just totally unbelievable," sighs Charles.
He has just returned to the UK from Zimbabwe, where his family runs the Imire Safari park, 100km (60 miles) southeast of Harare. The park is home to one of the only breeding centres for black rhinos, one of the most endangered mammals on Earth.
For the past 20 years the family has been rearing the animals and returning them to the wild, but last week, in the dead of night, armed men in camouflage gear burst onto the site and shot dead all three adult females.
One of them was just days away from giving birth. Her unborn calf died as well.
"We simply can't believe it. Those rhinos were our friends. We knew them all so well," said Charles.
"It is deeply tragic. We've been left with four little orphan rhinos, which won't be able to reproduce for about 20 years. The whole breeding programme is now at a standstill. It's desperate."
'Critically threatened'
There are only abound 3,000 black rhinos left in the wild, and the species is listed as Critically Endangered by the World Conservation Union, which means they "face an extremely high risk of extinction". Last year, one of the four sub-species was declared as "already extinct".
Not surprisingly, the shootings have caused deep alarm among conservation groups, not least because there have been a number of similar attacks in Zimbabwe this year. State-terror by other means? Does bob approve of whitey's effort to save the black Rhino? My general understanding of how africans see wildlife is that it's not exactly "eco-friendly", IE, they, as a rule (I'm sure there are courageous exceptions), don't give a flying crap about it.
Cathy Dean from Save the Rhino International said: "The situation for rhinos in the country is becoming more and more difficult every day. We must continue to support those working to save the vital rhino populations in this troubled nation."
So, who was responsible for the attack? And why would they have shot the black rhinos?
BBC News is banned from Zimbabwe but a government spokesman has told us that poachers are to blame. He described the shootings as "wanton destruction" and said the police and military had stepped up patrols to search for the gunmen.
Political crossfire
Black rhinos are sometimes shot by poachers, who sell their horns as dagger-handles In yemen & arabia IIRC.
or for use in Vaunted Chinese medicine, but the Imire rhinos had recently been de-horned as a precaution, so they didn't have any value to hunters.
This has led to fears that black rhinos are instead becoming a target in Zimbabwe's battles over land-ownership.
Cathy Dean from Save the Rhino said: "Over the last few years, we have made some real progress, working with the conservation authorities in Zimbabwe.
"I hope this event, and others recently, don't mean we are returning to the disastrous poaching of the late 80s and early 90s. I hope this is not the start of a very worrying trend."
According to Charles Hamilton, the orphaned rhinos on his ranch have been left "stunned" by the deaths of their mothers.
The youngest of the orphans, baby Tamba, is now being fed by bottle.
"It's heart-breaking," says Charles, "but we are determined to give these animals a future, and the breeding programme will continue."
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So - racist attacks on defenseless endangered animals. Hm, somehow I bet the eco people OR the racism people OR the anti-violence protesters OR the peace activists don't take this as a pet cause, or even mention it.
Melbourne police were called out to a polling station in the outer Melbourne seat of Deakin when emotions ran high between Liberal Party campaigners and a voter. Police say a woman took offence at Liberal Party posters outside the Great Ryrie Primary School in Heathmont.
They say she began arguing with campaigners, before ripping their posters down and then drove her car at a newspaper reporter. The reporter, John Elder from The Age, fell to the ground although he was not badly hurt.
"She actually came back and said, 'What do you mean you're a journalist?'" he said.
"She was very worried about that and she said, 'Will you accept my apology?'
"I said, 'I think you should go home because the police are coming'. To be honest I was a bit shaky."
... and that's the news from Norway: No momma, no papa, no Uncle Sami."
Irate reindeer herders from Sweden's indigenous Sami population took to the streets of Stockholm on Friday to protest against Norway's alleged attempts to force the animals from their traditional pastures.
With a real-life reindeer taking the lead, the protesters in traditional dress sang songs on their way to the Norwegian embassy.
The Saarivuoma reindeer herders group accuses Sweden of failing to come to their assistance and allowing Norway to systematically tear down fences, drive away their reindeer and threaten to fine Sami groups on the Swedish side of the border in Lapland.
"This is completely unreal. We can't live with a state that terrorizes and hunts us, despite the fact that we are on our own land. We have lived on this land and cultivated it for thousands of years, long before the creation of the Norwegian state," said Saarivuoma chairman Per Anders Nutti in a statement.
The group also stated that Sweden was quick to criticize others for human rights violations but unacceptably passive when it came to crimes taking place in its own back yard.
"We have to raise awareness about this. We don't have the resources to fight an adversarial state on our own. This is why we are now traveling to Stockholm to put forward our opinion and hand over letters of protest to the Swedish foreign ministry and the Norwegian embassy.
Negotiations took place during the summer to try to find a solution to a conflict that first broke out after the termination of a bilateral herding agreement between Sweden and Norway in 2005.
Norway subsequently took a unilateral decision to replace the agreement with a new law dictating which summer pastures could be used by the Swedish Sami.
Sweden in turn countered that such a law would be in breach of the so-called Lapp Codex from 1751, a reciprocal agreement covering cross-border rights for Sami groups from different countries.
When the Norwegian law came into force, Sweden's then Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds registered her country's dissatisfaction with an official protest to the foreign ministry in Oslo.
"A Norwegian high court ruling from 1968 asserted our right to use this land. The Norwegian state has broken its agreement with Sweden and the Swedish government needs to make it clear that this is not acceptable," Per Anders Nutti told The Local in June.
But a senior advisor for the Norwegian Reindeer Administration argued that the Saarivuoma were demanding access to a larger area than that agreed upon in the previous bilateral convention.
"They are breaking Norwegian law. [..T]hey are further west than we find legal," Christian Lindmann told The Local in June.
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The Swedes only care if it is foreigners getting their "rights" violated. They care not a whit for their own people - after all, they just live on the land.
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Don't be silly, gromky. If they were truly their own people, they wouldn't be indigenous herders, they'd be proper Swedes. A lot like the view of the Roma further south, the self-righteous bigots.
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