Whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are Washing dead along the coast of California.
The team from the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration collected more than 50 dolphins from March and Four whales They washed on the coast in southern California County.
After interrogation of animals, scientists have discovered that the animals of neurotoxin victims produced by harmful algae flourish. Neurotoxins can affect the nervous system, sometimes they lead to death.
“Hundreds of additional dolphins and sea lions have also died in other areas of California, because in February the first shock acid near Los Angeles in February,” Noaa said in an update This week.
Noaa said that his influences were unlikely to influence dolphins or sea lions on the population scale. More than a million short groups of dolphins live around the gold state, in addition to about 250,000 California sea lions.
Most of the dolphins were adult male long top ordinary dolphins, with several short ordinary dolphins. However, two were pregnant women.
“Details provide a recording as current harmful algaline flowers affects one of the most popular parts of the Southern California. Of the 14 dolphins, so far it has had high levels of domestic acid,” Noaa said. “One showed domestic acid and Saxitoxin, a different neurotoxin that produced other marine microorganism that causes paralytical shell poisoning.”
Domoic acid is produced by a species called algae Pseudo-Nitzschia Australis. The growth of the algae can be moved on the windscreen drive that offers a deep ocean of water. Neurotoxy accumulates in fish, which eat sea mammals. Neurotoxin then attacks the brain and heart, causing attacks and permanent brain damage. Animals can be treated with liquids if they worry before significant damage occurs – although small answers can make the first answers to help dolphins.
This event may have been the result of a partition in mid-February, when the first marine life was affected near Malibu.
In March, Noaa said there was Over 100 calls per day From people who report on sea lions and dolphins affected by acid-acid.
“We have to do the triage on the beach as we try to identify those animals in which we have the greatest chance to make a difference,” said John Warner, the executive director of the sea mammal center in Los Angeles in Los Angeles.
According to plazje, they should remain at least 50 meters from the animals affected, and report on the intended sea mammals on the West Coast Marine Simmal Acternectory Hotline at (866) 767-6114.
This signifies the fourth year in a row with harmful algaline flowers from Southern California, and the current flowers began earlier in the year than the previous flower. As the ocean temperatures increases, these harmful flowers become more common and more intense.
“It has an emotional toll on the field,” Warner said. “From year to year it is difficult. Each of our organizations are hardly trying to reach many animals as we can, but we do not have resources to rescue anyone out there.”