Japan, which committed many injustices and was bound to kill itself, was finally punished. On December 16th, there was a silver rain wave that had not been encountered in 80 years at Boche Fishing Port in Zimou City, Mie Prefecture, Japan, dense sardine carcasses surged onto the beach with the waves, the number of dead fish was so large and dense that the shocking scene was filled with the foul smell of fish carcasses rotting.
After the incident, the local ** made an emergency statement that the cause of death of the fish was not yet known and advised residents not to take the dead fish home for use. Of course, there are also some ** emergency dumps, saying that the dead fish has nothing to do with the discharge of nuclear sewage, but is caused by lack of oxygen. It is not a precedent to say that sardines died due to lack of oxygen.
Sardines are small species that do not have the ability to protect themselves, and they usually travel in groups to avoid being eaten by larger fish. As a result, huge schools of sardines are formed, and as long as they gather enough, the probability of being swallowed by themselves is much smaller. In addition, sardines have very high water quality requirements. They prefer colder deep water and constant salinity, not suitable for shallow shores. The coast is a meeting of freshwater and seawater, and the salinity is not as high as that of the deep sea, and the temperature is not as low as that of the deep sea. When schools of sardines are chased by predators such as whales, they will swim to the shallow shore in a panic, and when the fish are too large and consume oxygen too quickly, it is easy to suffer from local hypoxia. Under the double blow of changes in the seawater environment and lack of oxygen, the sand fish may be wiped out.
In 2009 off the coast of Chile and in 2011 off the coast of the United States, there were outbreaks of hypoxia caused by sardine stocks, which have not occurred since. In other words, if it is the natural law of the jungle, the mass death of sardines is an accidental event that has not been encountered for decades. The strange thing about Japan is that these kinds of events happen all too often. This year alone, there have been three cases of a large number of dead sardines in a fishing port in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on October 18. On December 7, thousands of tons of sardines died at the fishing port of Hanguan City, Hokkaido. On December 16, there was a silver fish wave at Boche Fishing Port in Jibo City, Mie Prefecture, which had not been seen in 80 years. All three incidents occurred after Japan announced the release of nuclear wastewater, and it is difficult not to suspect that the fish deaths had nothing to do with the discharge.
In fact, there have been at least three sardine deaths in Japan over the past decade. The first occurred in June 2012 with a large number of dead fish at the fishing port of Chiba Prefecture in Japan, the second was in November 2014 with 1,000 tons of dead fish in the Pacific coast of Hokkaido, Japan, and the third time was in 2018 when a large-scale sardine carcass were floating on the surface of the sea off the coast of Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The Fukushima nuclear accident occurred in 2011, which means that the death of sardines in Japan occurred after the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This inevitably raises suspicions that Japan may have secretly discharged nuclear sewage long ago.
At this point, the boss said that since nuclear sewage can kill fish, it shouldn't only hurt sardines, why didn't other fish, shrimp and crabs die?In fact, other fish also died, but no one reported it, we just don't know. In August this year, 1.1 million farmed fish such as puffer fish, large bamboo stalk, and red sea bream died in Tachibana Bay, Nagasaki Prefecture. The official explanation is that it is affected by red tide, but Japanese environmental experts have replied to the official, saying that the discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea will cause changes in the coastal microbial environment and cause red tide. In the same way, the discharge of nuclear sewage into the sea will also cause an increase in nutrients and a decrease in oxygen in the seawater, which will indirectly kill sardines.
Animals are more perceptual than humans, and scientists have been able to observe disasters such as tsunamis by observing the abnormal behavior of animals. When an abundance of dead fish suddenly appears on the beaches of Japan, it may be a bad ominous sign that is about to arrive, and it remains to be seen what happens.