As the end of the legislative session came to a close last week in Tallahassee, legislators added an item to the state budget that would fund research on a marine mystery developing in the Florida Keys.
When I was a kid and kind of ignorant about fishkeeping, I had a betta in a small tank. I remember testing the water and finding that its pH was too high, so being a stupid kid I took some pH down powder and dropped it directly into his tank. By the time I realized I did something wrong it was too late, and yeah, this is what it looked like. I think their instinct is to jump out because it's like being stuck in a small puddle or pool of water that has been poisoned. They are trying to jump out and crawl to another body of water that is clean.
@@Rob_Simli, just as they did in the days of Noah, until the fIood came and swept them all away. Those who are in Christ know we’re in the season of our LORD’S return. Praise YHVH through our LORD and Savior, Jesus Christ.
@@Redeemed.of.YHVH.thru.Christthe reason god had to kill everyone in the Flood is because it says he made man in his own image, and based on the acts of man God killed himself and that's why he one has heard from him since.
I once accidentally poisoned some goldfish by putting a painted rock in their tank. Within an hour they were spinning, freaking out, then belly up and dead. One came to life when I went to flush him. I felt so terrible, it was the paint metallics in the water that made them sick. So its definitely something like that, some sort of dumping pollutant that the fish are consuming.
right, but you can do that in an orderly manner. I think you misunderstood the purpose of "don't panic". It's not to tell people not to be worried, it's to prevent mindless, unncecessary, and unproductive fear. If you can control your fear and be productive with it by taking necessary steps, then it's not considered panicking.
This isn’t a mystery. This is ocean conditions that are toxic to fish. We see it in aquariums when fish will literally jump out of the tank and swim upside down, sideways and in circles. They’ll also sit there and “gasp” with their gills. This is 100% a water quality problem. Anyone who’s had a fish tank can tell you that.
I'd even go farther to say it's a specific toxin that's either being released from agriculture and industrial waste. Or with the mass die off lately. Mixes of toxins from the corals and loads of decaying organic debris from those corals as well.
Before 500 year ago the only polluted feces and rat infested continent was Europe! God gave every race an indigenous homeland for them and their descendants to thrive forever ! It was disease ridden Europeans who invented illegal mass immigration, colonization, and invasion and land theft, and caused a continent wide genocide of the indigenous ethnic American race by leaving their own indigenous lands, they invented forced multiculturalism and globalism that in less than 500 years have caused a amplification of global warming, species extinctions, air pollution, soil erosion and many global pandemics! It’s the the European who ruined the balance and health of humanity by pure greed of other peoples lands, resources, and the well being of the whole planet!!
The ocean has an impact on you no matter where you live. You're not safe from it. If you eat any seafood that's been contaminated, you can get serious health conditions and defects. And there's millions or even billions of ppl who do live there. We can't be selfish and not consider others@@strongestnattyever-videos2247
What about the seafood you eat and the water you drink? If the ocean is contaminated, those things can get contaminated as well, which can lead to you getting serious health conditions. Doesn't matter how far from the ocean you live, you're still not safe from these effects either lol. And billions of ppl live by the coastline already and future generations will suffer- we can't be too selfish@@strongestnattyever-videos2247
They need to stop dumping all the pesticides, fertilizers, and all the other chemicals that end up in our canals, lakes, rivers, and eventually the ocean.
In Florida there are strict rules about when you can fertilize and what kind of fertilizer you can use so it’s unlikely that fertilizer is the problem. But herbicides and pesticides and fungicides are used at the discretion of the homeowner.
Toxicology reports were negative for any toxins. Research the magnetic polar switch, last March (2023) the magnetic pull was already reduced by 40%. North X South. All aquatic life uses sonar and/or magnetic pull to find food and migrate to different areas. It would cause such abnormal behaviors. The aquatic interruption is just the tip of the iceberg though. During the first phases of the polar switch the earth will have greatly reduced protection from the most harmful rays of the sun. Quite a lot of people would perish from skin cancer. Outdoor livestock would as well. Which would raise meat prices and greatly reduce the amount of food availability. People would likely be quarantined to their homes to prevent the harmful effects of the sun’s rays. The earth movement would come to a halt temporarily while the water and air would continue to move at a normal speed. Causing catastrophic erosion and even tsunamis. It has been predicted that when the magnetic polar switch actually happens many people would be killed off before the poles transitioned (North X South) reset themselves again. Then life would continue to run in a somewhat normal way again. But the damage will already be catastrophic by then.
I am 50, I was born and raised in Tampa Bay FL and on our beaches. This year the water was dramatically hotter than I have ever felt it and the dead shell fish on the shore (empty spiral shells) was astounding. All my life I considered it lucky to find one or two spiral shells on the shore during a trip to the beach. This day there were thousands washing in with the tide.. Something is terribly wrong in our oceans and we as a species need to be accountable of what were doing to our planet.. we need to reduce the amount of plastic we discard, be aware of whats was used on our food; (Steriods, antibiotics and the pesticides on crops that run off into our oceans creating dead zones. We are eating ourselves into distinction and destroying our planets ecosystems. Everyone feels its too big to fix, but it begins at home on an individual level. If 40% of the population actively found ways to decrease plastic use, to eat organic and make positive environmental lifestyle changes it would be a huge step in the right direction..
Unfortunately lobbyists and politicians are in it with big elite companies and these companies are damaging our planet and the politicians who are to protect the people they serve are letting them do it! The Bible speaks of lovers of money being the undoing of the Earth. Evil is ruling the Earth. Poor Mother Nature. All her precious, innocent babies being poisoned, starved etc.
Look what happened in East Palestine, Ohio and Lahaina in Maui. And the earthquakes happening around the world. There are no coincidences. And unfortunately, Florida is no exception.
Lots of drugs have been washing up on Florida's shores recently. Perhaps, some of the packages opened up and dissolved into the water and it's killing the fish.
Today I learned that locals of where these sightings keep being captured on video HAVE STANDING TO SUE ENVIRONMENTAL CASES. They can file a lawsuit against the companies responsible for pollution affecting these waters. Will they?
@@jms5c8 it's not one parties fault... it's everyone's fault for not doing anything to stop, prevent or regulate the issue. People need to speak up if they want change, because there going to be nothing left for us to save soon.
As a Native American whos ancestors held land and irragated land using water in Abriginal times. (Owens valley Eastern mono paiute) . Los angeles has been fighting with us for awahile. But we seen our fish die and act like this in the creeks. Fed from mountain water that flows fast to Los angeles and theres no fish in (payahuunadu )land of working water like there used to be..
As someone who's run aquariums for 30 years, this is how fish act when the water is either too hot, or poisoned with some kind of contamination. Even algae blooms and stagnation don't do this. We have a big problem especially with the giant fertilizer spill in the Red Sea, that will raise sea temps even more.
The big thing that interests me (someone not in the area) is the suggestion that this behavior is highly localized. Like there is a specific source nearby. If it was algae/temperatures, I would anticipate the behavior being more widespread.. If only all those TV crime dramas were closer to reality as we could mass spectrometer the water there vs outside the affected area and quickly scan every single difference.
Watched all the coral and marine life on the tide pools in San Pedro coast, CA disappear as I grew through my teenage years. I think it was around 2012 Everything just started dying and never came back. The water went from bluish green to brown. I feel so sad for all the kids that will never get to experience how beautiful the natural wild life was on those tide pools.
I was thinking the same thing…very murky, lake-like 💧, Ive been to Florida, was years ago (10yrs) the one thing that made an impact on me was how clean and clear the waters were back then…😳
Very deceiving video. The water in the exact same location in The Keys can look completely different each day. This month with Spring temperatures the water is just starting to warm up so the algae blooms just like the trees do inland. Outgoing tide empties Florida Bay into the shallow waters makes it cloudy green. The next day there’s a change in wind direction and incoming tide of ocean water and it’s crystal clear again. But those insanely high water temps from last summer will surely have unexpected and lingering effects. They recorded the highest ocean temps ever recorded anyplace in the world. Verified
We've been spraying in the air and dumping into the water for years. Drives me insane we know exactly what's going on and act surprised when things turn south.
Its not that. Its global warming. The seas are rapidly increasing in temp. Last year the water was the same temp as a hot tub. I think the math for changing the acidity of the water...wed have to fly for 10k years straight dumping daily to change the ph of the ocean by 1
@@philliph8991lol never mind the chemically neucleated atmosphere, hey, it's just global warming. 😂are you kidding me? Dang wiggington can explain it much better, take a look around, maybe just look up. What goes up, Must come down.
@@simpinainteasyRHECoh the guy with fossil fuel ties who is trying to sue those that debunk him to quiet them? That guy? Do you also believe the earth is flat?
"We dump trash and chemicals into the oceans with reckless abandon, and we completely neglect Earth's sustainability systems, but I dont know why the fish are acting weird."
Fish jump out water to end their suffering just as it happens in aquariums. Those fish swimming in circles are going into shock from water parameters changing drastically. The fish beaching themselves have infections causing so much irritation they try to jump out of the water to escape it. For us it would be like soaking in poison in a gas filled room. For it to happen in such a large body of water there is something seriously wrong.
I have met so many crappy people, preppies, robbers, wannabe thugs and I got to tell you its people like them. I found evidence somebody walks their dog, the dog poops, they bag the dog poop and throw the bag in the middle of a field. Even more evidence people throw it in the woods and it washes into the creek.
@@TheeUnpleasantPeasant 2 mil is not much to find out how El Nino, if it is, would cause this. I can't see how El Nino alone would cause a relatively localised effect like that. El Nino has a broad impact around the planet.
@@firefox39693 it's one more variable among others. Humans have been attacking and destroying other species and habitats for 100K years, there are *no* "clean hands" on the planet, either. Our species cannot endlessly expect to exterminate, extirpate, burn down forests, disturb prairies, monoculture cropfarm, dam and divert rivers and lakes, drain and fill wetlands, and pollute in all manner without consequences.
Ex Navy. I remember seeing this along with other affected ocean life after we pinged our sonar close to shore. In fact, i remember a news story about a whale that beached itself the next day after we pinged in the area.
They need to test the bottom sediment as most if not all of the fish are bottom fish. They are currently testing oxygen algae water and temperature but they haven't mentioned anything about the bottom sediment, many chemicals and waste products are heavier than water..
When the truth offends we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth, sooner or later that debt is paid.
This mess is where anti-abortion overpopulation-supporting idiots demanding an end to abortion and birth control puts humanity. There's a valid reason that human infant mortality was astoundingly HIGH during most of humanity's existence!! Which would be better for the planet - AND for humanity? 3 billion people, or 19 billion people?!!
Crazy low IQ comment...... blaming what ONE PERSON said onto an ENTIRE species is BEYOND crazy ignorant. Literally ZERO critical thinking ability displayed....smfh how embarrassing.
*Species. As an aquarist of over a decade these fish are definitely experiencing poisoning or some kind of illness (I've seen streptococcal infections cause the spinning). Fish can react this way to pathogens or chemicals that don't necessarily pose any risk to humans
"Scientists recommend to avoid eating any fish behaving erratically". Good to know when it is already packaged in the store, or cooked and served to you in the restaurant.
I’d be looking for any frequency changes that could be picked up frequencies or something that have become more and more common knowledge that can affect a lot of stuff and that could be, and maybe was affecting marine life
We are headed straight for the 7 year tribulation followed by the physical return of Jesus Christ. These are the birth pains. God is trying to warn us of the judgement that is to come. But…. The Good News: The Lord Jesus Christ died, was buried and rose again on the third day and shed his blood for the forgiveness of all sins for all who believe! Get saved today if you aren't already! Have a blessed day folks!!
were cats ever mentioned in the bible @@cometogetherlikevoltron1230 , what about black people. I think it's odd that the bible is constrained to geographical and political locations and ideals. Almost like your bible was written by a people confined to a certain location and thought process.
I'm sure we'll get the whole story - scientists aren't known for being sneaky. Who would want to stop them, anyways? Nothing bad ever happens to the sources of these disasters.
@@DolphinsPlayingInAquaMoonlight I know of the finding you're talking about - it wasn't saying the studies were wrong due to deceit, but because of a lack of adequate peer review and experiment replication due to the unimportance in things being true for the corporations paying to develop a lot of science. They only need the science to get as far as "can we sell it", and leave any lawsuit ramifications for some future quarter and board of executives. As is almost universally the case, the disinformation disease is not being caused by the scientists, but by wealth-addict businessmen & lawyers hungry to make a buck more than anything else in life. Describing it as "scientists taking money from companies to lie for them" is an exceedingly inaccurate framing. That would be the sort of thing that would absolutely demolish a scientific career. Speaking of the Lancet, look no further than MMR vaccine-autism link liar and disgraced former doctor Andrew Wakefield.
I'm no marine biologist, but I have kept and bred freshwater fish for 10+ years. This is the same behavior I have seen when water parameters are unlivable. I doubt a place that runs on tourism will ever admit to water conditions being poor. Greed is how we got here, greed is why Earth will wipe us away one day. " Cause Mom's gonna fix it all soon, Mom's coming 'round to put it back the way it ought to be" Maynard James Keenan
It's also effecting the pelicans. I live on my boat in boot key harbor. Boot key harbor is in marathon. In the past two weeks I have had 4 pelicans slam into the side of my boat. One of them hit so hard his beak left a black scuff mark on the side of my boat. The pelicans are eating the fish being effected. I have lived on my sailboat for 12 years sailing all over. I have never had a pelican just nose dive into my boat, let alone 4 times over a matter of days. Something is definitely going on.
@@TheVelvetVixen I think it's the water being drained from the Okeechobee waterway again. This started after they decided to let billions of gallons a day out.
Why do you blame people. It’s an algae bloom possibly caused by an abnormally hot summer. This happens fairly frequently as we have regular fluctuations in temperature regularly over time. You have been taught to reflexively blame and hate your fellow human beings at every instance. Sad.
@@cardboardt.v.6055 It's the pathologically greedy billionaire psychopaths refusing to pay their taxes, lobbying for weak or nonexistant anti-pollution regulations, encouraging and supporting OVERPOPULATION.... This mess is what being an anti-abortion overpopulation supporting idiot gets you. There's a valid reason that human infant mortality was astoundingly HIGH during most of humanity's existence!! Which would be better for the planet - AND for humanity? 3 billion people, or 19 billion people?!!
No one is ignoring it. People just don't care. People have been dumping all kinds of trash in the waters for years. People have been polluting the waters with their boats for years. You know, like these cruise lines that the government allows them to dump the ship waste into the open waters.
This pisses me off so much, a lot of us do take care of our environment, but there's always greedy people bent on polluting and making everything worse.
I’ve been scuba diving for 35 years and in the last 15 years the coral reefs have been dying at a very alarming rate and it’s gotten so bad I don’t have much desire to dive anymore. When my wife retires we would like go down there and help with the coral reef restoration project. The plastic in the ocean is another issue that’s really needs to be cleaned up too.
Isn't 15 years ago right around when a damaged oil rig spewed over 200 MILLION gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico followed by almost 2 MILLION gallons of chemical dispersant?
@@lawngnome777 Some of us who live in First Past The Post election systems like myself here in the UK, don't get a chance to choose who make decisions because the vote is thrown away by the system. The UK NEEDS Proportional Representation. Representation FOR ALL. It's rigged against us otherwise.
Bit late for that now, it's past the tipping point. Even if people smartened the eff up and voted out all the banana republicans, the damage they did is too far gone now to be reversible at this point.
It's big corporations, our government, and dumping into the lakes, oceans, and rivers by these corporations, and trash haulers that is poisoning the water. It's not typically the individual person unless it's purposefully done to be malicious.
I see this as some of the most important and meaningful kind of news to share with the public. Thank you so much for reporting this and other reports like this.
Sadly, local fb groups targeted at tourists and run by the tourism council have seemingly made a concerted effort since November to keep a lid on it until this past week or so when it was so evident that it couldn't be hidden anymore. Fb groups used by locals have been full of nothing else for months
I agree but good luck getting the public to care about anything in the natural world, if it’s cute and fuzzy you might stand a chance… but fish… yea right… even honeybees are more cute and fuzzy than fish…
When I was 10 years old (1965), we would go to Destin, Florida, the water was pristine everywhere. Thirty-five years later, we went back and tried to go snorkeling in the bay, the water was so polluted from fertilizers and other pollutants, we couldn’t see 4 feet in front of our face.
The water was crystal clear in Myrtle Beach when I was about 5 years old in 1987 or 1988. (We have pictures of us standing in the water.) I went back with a friend and her family when I was about 15.. it was like we never left Jersey. The ocean was brown.. couldn't see the bottom anymore.. Truly sad how all that worked out. It's only going to get worse though....... 🙏❤️
"man's" NO!!!! STOP!!! STOP PLACING BLAME ON "HUMANITY" AND RECOGNIZE IT'S *US *! OUR LIFESTYLES, OUR NEIGHBORS, *OUR* POLITICIANS AND CORPORATIONS!!!! WE CAN STOP IT!!!
The effects are identical to those noted among salmon in the Pacific northwest from contaminants released from tires called N-(1,3-Dimethylbutyl)-N′-phenyl-p-phenylenediamine (6PPD) and 6PPD quinone.
The fish are trying to tell is the water is to hot for them to survive!! As we have seen the warmest water temperatures in these last couple of years because of our constant pollution!!
Weird, we live here and this has been one of the coldest winters we have had in years. The water as of wed was still to chilly to snorkel without a skin or wet suit. Come back in late July or Aug to find water temp above 85 in the bays.
I remember my late grandfather and I saw fishes spinning and some were floating in our hometown's beach. A few days later, it was on the news because of a factory that spilled their chemicals into the ocean which is just a few blocks away from the shoreline of Long Beach. No one was allowed to swim that summer. For almost 2-3 months.
You don't remember it well enough to name the Toxin, Year, or Corporation responsible for Dumping. Did y'all call RFK Jr. to Help you? Maybe you should consider calling Mr. Kennedy, Mr. President.
The saddest part is the sawfish beaching, those things are so cool, large, and majestic. They’re so endangered that every single one is very important.
Floridas plumbing can’t handle all the new influx of people. Those fish/water ways are being poisoned by dirty water that the plants can’t filter and are dumping into the ocean….
Floridas plumbing can’t handle all the new influx of people. Those fish/water ways are being poisoned by dirty water that the plants can’t filter and are dumping into the ocean….
Ive had tanks for years and have only seen that behavior when they’re living in unlivable/contaminated water. Their swim bladder (lets them control how high/low they can go) is one of the first things to go, thats why they’re spinning around
It’s sonar. The same thing is happening in Maine where they’re surveying the bottom of the Gulf of Maine for hard bottom to anchor a new wind farm. It’s old news here, but we ( the lobstermen of Maine) had to take NOAA to court to make them admit it, which they did and their own data was used against them to prove it.
Except for the melodramatic music 🙃 because it made me wonder if I was watching a film, rather than a news report. The facts are sufficiently disturbing to capture our attention!
Chromium 6 poisoning also has these type of symptoms. A lot of Chromium 6 was dumped north of that location. One can look at sat maps and chemical plant locations to figure this one out.
How would they test for this? Wouldn't it come up in the water testing they have done already, or is it something you have to test for specifically in order to detect?
@@AmmaLove24 Normal municipal water testing looks for such pollutants by regulation, and sometimes fishing waters are tested for it too. Still it's way too easy to escape notice when the nodding and winking are in a condition for that (e.g. Flint water with lead).
The answer is very clear. Its from the cruise ships dumping waste and fuel oil before they enter and leave Key West. Anyone who has been out at the reef when the ships enter the cut have seen them dumping their tanks .
@@liamwilson7549Is Desantis gov of FL? I hope ALL Floridians stand up, stomp your feet, and make so much noise about this horrible situation!! It's a damn shame that this is happening on both E and W oceans.
I know. I used to live on the beach in NY and the water was green like that. It's like the crap is moving downward. Florida has to be different. If there is one thing that is important in Florida it is the sanctity of the water because with these housing prices, without the water, we are just in the south... and the south ain't worth a 6 million dollar home.
They just swept it under the rug until we noticed it now they have no choice but to investigate what is going on 😢if they really cared about it they should have done something about it before it got this bad😢
Yuh because if it is navy sonar testing then they will not talk or admit. It is a simple thing to figure out....where were any sonar testing taking place when there were/are incidences of beachings or erratic and aggressive behaviors. All and any spokespeople know, they know what is going on in the waters. The "need" for navy in u s waters outweighs the need I guess for protection of our seas and the life in them. Protecting the country and surely with all our technology can be accomplished in less invasive ways than subjecting sealife to the slow and torturous death that comes from sonar testing.
As an aquarist of over a decade these fish are definitely experiencing poisoning or some kind of illness (I've seen streptococcal infections cause the spinning). Fish can react this way to many different pathogens or chemicals. It's not necessarily that this behavior is unprecedented or even unique. The concern is the apparent outbreak of symptoms without a known cause, not so much the symptoms themselves
I live on Florida coast, i would rather wash in toilet water than go in the sea. Boaters, companies and tourists have literally killed that entire eco system.
@@NoNORADon911 Between the massive oil spills and untold amounts of different kinds of dope lost through the years and plastic/ chemicals. There is no telling what all is gonna happen to the ocean and planet in general.
As the one marine biologist said. For three decades he has been swimming recreationally and has noticed a steady decline of the health of the reef. The reef is vital part of the ecosystem when it starts to die, other events are triggered and it opens up the door sadly...
Media: *"Bizarre behavior by fish in Florida Keys"* Ron 'White Boots' DeSantis: *"That's it!! I'm deporting all the strange looking fish to MARTHA'S VINYARD!!"*
Of course pollution is a huge problem and we need to reduce it drastically, but what's causing this is not necessarily pollution-related. If this problem does indeed turn out to be caused by pollution, what specific component is the culprit? "Pollution" encompasses a myriad of things.
It's chemtrails. Dumping of chemicals and toxic substances from the skies everyday for decades. There is sinister evil stuff happening in this world and many people aren't paying attention.
A very quick Google search says “Mad dashing about with some twirling is a sign a fish has been poisoned, often several days earlier. The most common poison by far is chlorine. Very high levels of ammonia (> 10 ppm.) will also give these symptoms.” “Ammonia in water primarily occurs due to agricultural fertilizers and industrial process wastes containing ammonia getting into surface water in runoff.”
If that were the cause you would see it happening all over the region with dozens of species acting like, and not just one or two per week. Chlorine, fertilizer, and algae aren't the culprits here since we can clearly see it isn't resulting in mass die offs or odd behavior.
While at college in Florida during 1979-1983, when I wasn't in school, I spent all my time at the beach. Swimming for miles & miles every week. 45 years later, you couldn't pay me to get into any Florida beach water. For 1000's of years, that water was a delight to swim in. In 45 years, it's become a chemical waste dump. Especially sad for those of us old enough to remember how glorious the Florida Beach Water used to be. 😢
I remember living there as a kid now close to 50 years ago and the water was clear blue, so sad to see how bad it is. The Human race is to blame for this it's sad to say most of us don't give two craps as long as we pay to play, it makes me so mad. I remember walking the beach with my grandma and picking up trash on the water and that was in the 70s
@@tinaalmeidam4479 It's not just "the human race", it's the pathologically greedy billionaire psychopaths who financially/parasitically feed off of human overpopulation. Which would be better for the planet? 3 billion people, or 19 billion people?
