The EPA have just confirmed.. Nothing to do with environmental factors, such as weather, oil spill, disease etc. They are referring back to Fisheries to continue lines of enquiry re fish dumping.
This needs to be investigated wether from disease,gamma interence or unhumane marine sabotage. Must share as this is one of the most unique marine biodiveristy
Are people aware that hundreds of thousands of other fish are killed and thrown out when trawlers are hunting for prawns etc, theyre usually dead before they even reach the boat, 3 hours spent getting dragged around in a net full of fish does that
Dear Steve, as a child in 1957 or 58, I saw such an event while it happened. At paradise beach, while my grandfather was fishing, there was frantic fish activity between the shoreline and the sandbar, which could be reached by wading out at low tide; there was a mako shark going up and down the trough, so my grandmother hoisted up her skirts and was throwing salmon caught in her hands over her shoulder onto the sand: she needn't have bothered, as the salmon were soon throwing themselves onto the beach. I have never seen the like before or since. Mike R.
Wow!.. that would've been great to see! Thanks for sharing Mike I guess if you spend enough time on the beach you'll get to see some amazing things. Cheers mate 👍
Its strange how these phenomenon target a single species of fish. 100% Fishing trawler dumping bi-catch. Not some natural disaster. If it was a natural disaster all species of fish would be effected not just one. As a lesser price per kg fish they dump their haul to make way for better catches to maximise their money income. A few years back we had yellow tail scad washed up on the shore line in port phillip bay. We were in the process of removing the liences for netters in our bay at the time.
@markcarboon7008 Look out is the gramma police 🚔. If there is anyone is not worth listening to go take a look in the mirror. Try making a constructive comment and explain the difference then. You know this is the interenet for all you know i could be very young. So i guess that means you think these fish and the penguins died of natural causes and all decided to beach them selves.
Can’t somebody with the know, track down what boats were in the area, then track down which one or ones are trawlers. Or let me guess, this is perfectly legal in Australia
It is probably bycatch dumped off the biggest fishing boat in East Gippsland, seen it before Steve in the 90s with Sand Whiting 6” deep 40 m wide along Eastern Beach in Lakes Entrance. We were surf fishing and there was the biggest fishing boat 100 m behind the sand bar trawling along, next morning all the fish were washed up on the foreshore.
About 15 years ago the Loch Sport beach was covered in large dead salmon like this but many more salmon, when that same trawler mentioned came too close to shore, nets out and full of salmon. They got stuck on the sandbar right close in with the trawler sitting on top of the nets full of fish. Ship was towed off by another trawler at high tide next day, many of us walked a few klms up the beach to view it, plenty of photos taken by others, but I didn't have a camera with me. So many fish, so many birds with full stomachs, so many dead rotting, stinking salmon. Took several weeks for the mess and stench to clear.
I’d say trawler guys. Why would they fill their kill tanks with salmon at $10/kg when they could fill up with flathead or gummy at $30/kg. Also coincides with a week long strong easterly wind blowing straight onshore.
@@sportysbusiness its a different salmon than in NZ mate. We eat Chinook (King) Salmon. The Aussies call this a Salmon but it actually belongs to the perch family which is a different species altogether.
@@paulmarston1 and a different genus too, it’s like saying a hawk is a pigeon, well, they both have feathers and fly but that’s about it in similarity.
I wouldn't believe anything what the EPA says. I worked with biosecurity for a short while, I couldn't believe the culture, the BS. Sounds feasible a trawler, how would we know? Unless someone posted it, like David McBride. The deckhands probably sign some gag order anyway
My wife who grew up in Loch Sport thought maybe lightning? Trawler mishap also sounds feasible as they all seem to be a similar size from a large school. A bit of a daunting sight.
Or the possibility of a large seismic shift along the fault lines in the Southern Ocean? The Oar fish are renown for it, maybe the Salmon have caught on.
We just had an algal bloom caused by an upwelling event (Bonny current/upwelling) off the coast of eastern Vic and most of S.A. This caused quite a lot of dead marine critters to wash up along the Coorong, fish, seals, first time I'd seen a dead baby dolphin. Is this the same area or are you over at Lakes entrance?
Similar thing happening on the coast of Bribie Island Qld, thousands of dead young whitting. We have had so much rain the internal lakes are draining into the ocean with tannon and killing the fish.
Jaysus…that’s where all the damn fish were…dead on some bloody beach miles from Cape Woolamai…the surf and the side current was horrendous yesterday…water also very warm!
This is from a post in 2018 when a similar event happened. This is what it said :The seismic testing is to look into storing carbon in the empty gas wells, from 800m to 7km offshore from Golden Beach. The sonic booms are every 7 seconds and apparently enough to kill someone if they're beneath the water line
@@officialWWM thought the same thing,no small fish either .Back in 2014 the same thing happened but only trevelly and leatherjackets.There is actual photos if it.But I like the fishing trawler theory better
The mass of seagulls you’re talking about do not exist on long stretches of southern ocean beaches, where gulls congregate is where humans are and they can get a free feed.
The seagulls where I live migrated to the city parks and DUMPS because some crazy dunehuggers classified some of them to be protected and brought them over to town from the beach where they naturally supposed to live
Any rivers flooding in the area? Too much fresh water entering the ocean can cause this. Happened earlier this year at Eight Mile Creek Beach in South Australia.
Sharks chase them up onto the beach and they get stuck. On Rottnest Island WA the sharks herd them up and the Salmon literally jump out and onto the rocks.
I was camping out at Golden Beach (90 Mile Beach) on Saturday 11th of May, 2024. While in my swag I jolted awake at about 3am (Sunday Morning) to what I thought I heard was bombing.. As I jolted awake I asked my partner who was next to me if she could hear that, her response was "Hear what?". The sound started to blend in with the waves and I was unsure if my senses were just heightened as I felt I was in a delirious state. I ended up going back to sleep - Monday morning these Salmon were as in the video - washed up onto shore as far as the eye could see. I could even see plenty of dead salmon floating in the waves. No visible sign of why they were dead, no physical damages.
@@peterlamanna8952 Trawlers have a catch limit that they can return with. If they are bringing in their last net and there are too many fish they must throw them back into the ocean, dead or alive. It seems a terrible waste of food as the excess could be go to homeless shelters or people in need. Been this way for years. If they come in over their catch allotment they can be fined heavily.
Stop, investigate turn a few over if possible take a few to a marine biologist or even a veterinarian for analysis it's the only way to get answers. Good job spreading the information.
I am thinking maybe predators such as dolphines maybe being very active and chasing schools of salmon or a Lakes Trawler had a net mishap maybe , i have seen trawlers in the past dragging nets there propbably no more than 200 meters past the sand bar .
@@SteveOutsideno it couldn’t be either, dolphins don’t kill schools of fish without eating them. The fish looked unharmed from the outside, Dolphins would have caused biting injuries and especially around the caudal area to prevent the fish from swimming. I think the trawler theory is the best fit so far. An autopsy would be interesting, dead turtles, fish and sea birds often have a lot of plastic in their gut. I found a massive 200kg dead turtle at Inskip once, a shark had taken a bite out of it and a full sized black garbage bag was in its intestines.
no that's not it , it is the criminal ccp and its fleet of10,000 ships - also called floating junk which are raping our oceans destroying them like they have destroyed the chinese mainland , its people and its culture
It is natural to have no gulls. There are not massive numbers of gulls to descend on this lot. It is common to have large numbers of gulls in towns as that’s where the free food is.
What is going to eat thousands of kilograms of dead fish on an ocean beach? The gulls stick to cafes these days. And there are few other scavenging birds, they could only eat a tiny proportion.
Should contact Museums Victoria and let them Know of Fisheries and Wildlife. Or department of Conservation or what ever its is called in VIC these days.
No amount of rain is going to cause a mass die off in the ocean. Australian Salmon are happy to come into estuaries which are usually partly fresh water, I have caught heaps in east Gippsland in Tamboon Inlet which can be blocked from the ocean and the salmon are caught inside, they are more than happy to have only partially salty water.
Quite common Steve. You see these salmon came out of the wild fishery certainly in Westernport and I think other bays as well. Two distinct types of salmon (called roughies when small). One type heads west and the other your way on their own way north. The are caught at Cape Leeuwin in WA from April on measuring 500mm and bigger.. The ones you saw were eating their way to Northern NSW chasing enormous schools of pilchards and, at the top of the flood tide, in a feeding frenzy, they get stuck high and dry. A Natural phenomenon, nothing to worry about.
Government regulations do this, when a boat catches it's quota of a species, it dumps the rest and continues to catch the species left in their quotas.
Down here near Victor harbor in South Australia we've recently had dead penguins washed up on the beach. Apparently there has been an algae that little fish have eating or been in then the penguin eats them and its no good for them.
The only thing I can think of is that the increased electro-magnetic radiation that caused the aurora has interfered with the navigation systems the fish & penguins have. It's a poorly understood topic, but it's the only logical explanation that I know of that could have caused this. Not saying I'm correct, just the only thing I can think of.
@SteveOutside could just be a strange coincidence! I don't think we'll ever know, frankly. We don't understand enough about marine animals and their behaviours yet, especially when they beach themselves in huge numbers.
I reckon that high electromagnetic activity could do something to their navigational systems but in saying that if these fish deaths are indirectly or directly related to the solar flare, then you'd expect there to be heaps more dead fish all along the coastline. Was this a localised event or did this also happen along all coastlines? I fished at sugars this morning and I can report that there was nothing washed up there, Australian Salmon and baitfish were abundant though!
Gulls aren’t common in numbers on beaches far from human activity, the free food is near beachside cafes etc. I only see one gull a week if I’m lucky at my beach but 20 km away there are hundreds at the cafes.
Saw thousands of dead Pilchard there in 98’ Strange how it’s only salmon n not a single other species My guess is they’re salmon that have been thrown at sea for all sorts of reasons n ended up along beach I say this as of it was that toxic etc there …you’d have seen mullet and crabs and flathead and gummy shark and banjos and gurnard and trevally and snapper and school whiting
I remember the dead pilchards. I was in Newcastle on the way to Sydney. The whole beach was covered in them and it stank. Never seen anything like it. I live on the Sunshine Coast. A few years ago there were hundreds of dead birds on our beaches. Apparently they were migratory birds from Russia. We were told they had fallen out of the sky from exhaustion. I really don't know. In this case it seems like bycatch released by a trawler.
@@redplanet7163 Possibly were shearwaters or mutton birds as they're more commonly known. Each year they undergo an incredible journey flying nonstop from Siberia back to the eastern coastline of Australia including a lot of the smaller islands further south where cooler waters lay filled with fish rich produce and a lot of feed After spending the spring here through until about late march or just into April, the entire mass of these birds-all 16 million breeding pairs take flight and head to Russian territory's nonstop as mentioned, they achieve this by flying at a high altitude to harness wind currents and warmer air streams. They need a LOT of food daily to raise their newborn chick (that will follow once grown out n able to fly after the parents have left and makes its own way back to start the cycle again), amazing I know :) During the late winter early spring of 2012 Unfavorable current along the east coast of Aust saw a huge hiccup in available food for the returning mutton birds. This had them entering bays and estuaries along the coastline from southern QLD all the way to Western Victoria & in particular Port Phillip Bay. Known as wrecks when found perished after they group up n seek food during these inshore travel times. The inside areas simply cannot supply enough daily fodder for the literal thousands of these starving birds. Many perish & are collected daily along beach areas in metro settings by council operations mostly. Hasn't happened along these parts since then & currently mutton bird numbers are not threatened. They return each and every year within a day or 2 on the exact month like clockwork. So much so a resident at Port Fairy western Vic has tuned in to mutton bird movements so much in recent years through many-many hours of observing them. He says each year between the 19th & the 22nd of Sept they start to arrive & continue arriving over following days-weeks. Fascinating species and one we search for & follow often when targeting bluefin tuna. They've also got a long history as a food source originating from the days of sail. Still today there's an annual cull on small islands near Tasmania for a few weeks each year. These birds are collected & processed for sale as meat products in both Tasmania, New Zealand & Australia. Never tried it personally but feel it's probably going to have a decidedly stronger oil filled taste given they feed exclusively on small fish species.
I think it would be worthwhile changing the title to Kahawai instead of Salmon as most of the commenters have confused Australian Salmon with real salmon and as we know, they are not in any way related. Kahawai is their other name and how they’re called in NZ.
Mate say that the samon looked dead for a while. Couple weeks ago there was a whale that had washed up into Port Albert. Not saying there related BUT...
Subs are stealthy, they do not give away their position to the world by blasting sonar randomly AND you fail to take into account that every other species around would have died too. Just one penguin in this instance.
SteveO. How you doing up in SUNNY FAR NORTH QUEENSLAND mate. A week ago, I contacted Fisheries to find out if they had investigated the death of those salmon and Penguin. They told me they had never heard of it. I told them that was bollocks as I remember you saying to me that you had reported it to the EPA, but FISHERIES denied any reports had been made to them and they could not enlighten me whatsoever. Anyhow, have a great break up there mate. Take care and regards to your brother!
G'day Angus, yeah I arrived here in Qld yesterday. Going fishing tomorrow. Fisheries are full shit mate. I personally sent them a link to my video, and they responded saying they were already aware of it.
