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1 | Year | Date | Death Toll | Animal | Species | Country | State/Province/Region | City/Local | Cause | Cause Description | Source | Article | Notes | ||||||||||||||||||
2 | 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | 06/12/23 | Tens of Thousands | Fish | Gulf Menhaden | USA | Texas | Quintana Beach | Oxygen | Higher water temperatures buoyed by global warming. | Bindu Bansinath, "Meanwhile, in Texas, Fresh Signs of Impending Apocalypse," The Cut, June 6, 2023, https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/meanwhile-in-texas-fresh-signs-of-impending-apocalypse/ar-AA1crVYG?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=2f3cfdd6be1f4ce086e0ae443895e543&ei=39. | |||||||||||||||||||||
4 | 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | 10/5/2022 | Tens of Thousands | Fish | Salmon | Canada | British Columbia | Heat | Dried-up creek bed | |||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | 9/26/2022 | 11 | Fish | White Sturgeon | Canada | British Columbia | Unknown | Unknown | The Guardian | Sudden die-off of endangered sturgeon alarms Canadian biologists | |||||||||||||||||||||
7 | 9/23/2022 | 1,700 | Fish | Redbreat Sunfish / Bluegills / Catfish | USA | Georgia | Wilkes County | Pollution | Waters polluted with ammonia | The Atlanta Journal-Constitution | North Georgia farm fined $85K for wastewater spill, fish kill | ||||||||||||||||||||
8 | 9/22/2022 | "Large Community" | Fish | Peanut Bunker | USA | New Jersey | Harvey Cedars | Unknown | Unknown | NJ.com | Dead fish create a big stink as they rot in the waters off this Jersey Shore community | ||||||||||||||||||||
9 | 9/22/2022 | 200 | Whales | Pilot Whales | Australia | Tasmania | Unknown | Unknown | CNN | 32 whales rescued after around 200 die in mass stranding in Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||
10 | 9/21/2022 | Dozens | Fish | Crappie / Large Mouth Bss | USA | South Carolina | Lyman | Unknown | Unknown | 7 News WSPA.com | SCDNR investigates fish kill on Middle Tyger River | ||||||||||||||||||||
11 | 9/16/2022 | Dozens | Fish | USA | Indiana | New Palestine | Algae | Red Algae / Thermal Inversion | Greenfield Reporter | County officials say fish kills are rare but do happen | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | 9/15/2022 | >12 | Whales | Sperm Whales | Australia | Tasmania | Unknown | Unknown | CNN | Hundreds of whales stranded on Australian shore | |||||||||||||||||||||
13 | 9/15/2022 | 8,818 lbs / 4,000 kg | Fish | India | Karnataka | Bengaluru | Pollution | Sewage flow | Hindustan Times | Sewage flow causes fish kill in Bengaluru's Haralur lake | |||||||||||||||||||||
14 | 8/30/2022 | "Uncountable" | Fish | USA | California | San Francisco | Algae | Red Tide / Algal bloom | The New York Times | Toxic Red Tide Kills ‘Uncountable’ Numbers of Fish in the Bay Area | |||||||||||||||||||||
15 | 8/24/2022 | 440,925 lbs / 200,000 kg | Fish | Germany / Poland | Oder River | Unknown | Possible algal bloom. Germany says "elevated pesticide levels and increased salinity of water" | Euronews | Oder river fish die-off remains a mystery as new details emerge | ||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | 8/22/2022 | 100 | Fish | USA | Georgia | Flat Creek | Pollution | Soybean spill | Fox News | Mass fish deaths found in Georgia creek following soybean spill | |||||||||||||||||||||
17 | 8/8/2022 | Thousands | Fish | Salmon, Trout, Suckerfish | USA | California | Klamath River | McKinney Fire - burned soil, rocks and downed timber fell into the river, and turned into a plume of brown “sludge” that made its way downriver | The New York Times | California Fire and Floods Turn a River to ‘Sludge,’ Killing Thousands of Fish | |||||||||||||||||||||
18 | 7/28/2022 | >2,500 | Fish | Brown Trout | USA | Minnesota | Lewiston | Unknown | Possibly pollution seeping into streams after rainfall | KARE11 | Fish kill in Minnesota river tops 2,500; state confirms deaths 'did not occur naturally' | ||||||||||||||||||||
19 | 7/7/2022 | Thousands | Fish | Anchovies | USA | California | Marin County | Oxygen | After marine heat wave ended in 2016, anchovy population explosion, anchovies chased to shallow waters and ran out of oxygen | The New York Times | First, the Fish Fell From the Sky. Then They Washed Ashore. | ||||||||||||||||||||
20 | 2/22/2022 | Thousands | Fish | Anchovies / Sardines | Chile | Coliumo peninsula | Oxygen | Low oxygen levels in deeper waters, according to some locals, could be the cause of the deaths, forcing fish to migrate closer to the shore in quest of oxygen | RepublicWorld.com | Chile: Thousands Of Dead Anchovies And Sardines Wash Ashore On Beach | |||||||||||||||||||||
21 | 2/1/2022 | Thousands | Crabs/Lobsters | United Kingdom | England | Unknown | Possibly pyridine pollution | New Scientist | What’s causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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23 | 10/1/2021 | Tens of Thousands | Crabs/Lobsters | United Kingdom | England | Unknown | Possibly pyridine pollution | New Scientist | What’s causing a mass die-off of crabs on the UK coast? | ||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | 2020 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | 9/23/2020 | 380 | Whales | Pilot Whales | Australia | Tasmania | Unknown | Unknown | The Guardian | 380 whales dead in worst mass stranding in Australia's history | Dr Karen Stockin, an associate professor at Massey University in New Zealand, is an expert on whale and dolphin strandings "“It’s fair to say this will probably rank third or fourth globally [in terms of the numbers of stranded animals].” | ||||||||||||||||||||
26 | 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | 2018 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | 2017 | 8/28/2017 | Thousands | Fish | Whitebait / Pilchards / Sand Eels | UK | England | St. Austell | Unknown | Unknown | Cornwall Live | Thousands of tiny fish have been mysteriously washing up on Crinnis Beach in St Austell | |||||||||||||||||||
29 | 8/23/2017 | Dozens | Fish | Mullet | UK | England | Falmouth | Oxygen | A dramatic change in oxygen levels could be responsible | The Packet | Unknown contaminants likely to blame for dead fish at Swanpool: UPDATE | ||||||||||||||||||||
30 | 8/9/2017 | Hundreds | Birds | Shearwaters | USA | Long Island / New England | Unknown | Unknown - Starvation due to toxic algae? | Eco RI News | Dead Seabirds Washing Ashore on New England Beaches | |||||||||||||||||||||
31 | 6/19/2017 | Hundreds | Fish | Catfish / Crappie / Walleye | USA | Missouri | Lake of the Ozarks | Disease | The Missouri Department of Conservation is attributing the kill to a naturally occurring fish disease. | LakeExpo | FISH KILL: Biologists Explain Why Fish Are Dead By The Hundreds At Lake Of The Ozarks | ||||||||||||||||||||
32 | 6/14/2017 | Dozens | Fish / Crabs | USA | New York | Staten Island | Unknown | Unknown | SILive.com | Dead fish and crabs wash up on shore of Wolfe's Pond Park | |||||||||||||||||||||
33 | 6/12/2017 | Thousands | Fish | Menhaden | USA | Texas | Matagorda | Chron. | Thousands of fish wash up dead in river channel in Matagorda, Texas | ||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | 6/5/2017 | Thousands | Fish | Anchovies & other bigger game fish | USA | Washington | Puget Sound | The hot weather last weekend prompted the fish to swim closer to the shore to feed on plankton. When the tide went out, the anchovies became trapped and died from a lack of oxygen. | The Weather Channel | Huge Fish Die-Off in Washington's Puget Sound Blamed on Hot Weather | |||||||||||||||||||||
35 | 5/2/2017 | Thousands | Fish | Silver Carp | USA | Tennessee | Kentucky and Barkley lakes | Because of malnutrition, the fish eventually succumb to secondary stressors such as bacterial infections, which their immune systems would normally fight off. | The Tennessean | Stinky, rotting fish are polluting Kentucky and Barkley lakes | |||||||||||||||||||||
36 | 2/15/2017 | Thousands | Fish | Sardines | Costa Rica | Gulf of Nicoya | Unknown | Unknown. The report said it is unlikely that the phenomenon was caused by chemical poisoning or that it has anything to do with warmer water temperatures in the Gulf of Nicoya, since a single species appears to have been affected. | The Tico Times | Thousands of dead fish wash up from Gulf of Nicoya | |||||||||||||||||||||
37 | 2016 | 8/24/2016 | Thousands | Fish | USA | New Jersey | Keansburg | Oxygen | "Warmer water has a lower oxygen saturation. What that really means is that warm water holds less oxygen. Second, most animals and bacteria in the ocean are ‘cold blooded’ and their metabolic activity is related to temperature. When it is warmer, their basic metabolic rate goes up and they need more oxygen,” | New Jersey 101.5 | Where will Keansburg take thousands of dead fish? Same place they buried whale | ||||||||||||||||||||
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39 | 6/1/2015 | 40,000,000 | Trees | Mangroves | Australia | Gulf of Carpentaria | Moon Wobble | Moon wobble and possibly El Nino | Smithsonian Magazine | World’s Largest Mangrove Die-Off Was Likely Aided by the Moon | World's largest | ||||||||||||||||||||
40 | 2014 | 7/30/2014 | Thousands | Fish | Anchovies | USA | Oregon | Seaside | Oxygen | An upwell in ocean nutrients that allowed for an expansion of phytoplankton, which in turn reduced oxygen levels and turned the water more acidic than normal | Reuters | Dead anchovies delight sea birds, disgust Oregon beach town | |||||||||||||||||||
41 | 2013 | 10/22/2013 | Tens of Thousands | Fish | Anchovies | USA | California | Santa Cruz | Oxygen | Anchovies chased to shallow waters and ran out of oxygen | The Mercury News | Fish take wrong turn, foul Santa Cruz harbor | |||||||||||||||||||
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