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Old 03-17-2011, 04:22 PM   #1
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Mar 17, 2011: Acapulco schools of fish



Live fish this time instead of dead ones: Acapulco is experiencing weird schools of fish, so thick that they blacken the water. They think it must be related to the tsunami halfway around the world... but how??

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Old 03-17-2011, 05:01 PM   #2
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Looks like a shark
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Old 03-17-2011, 05:11 PM   #3
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Fish swim in schools for protection, right? So these fish are trying extra hard to protect themselves by swimming in an extra tight school: they are frightened of something. Yes it seems reasonable that they could be frightened as a result of the tsunami.
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Old 03-17-2011, 06:34 PM   #4
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We get schools of bait fish here like that. You should see the sharks going crazy for them.

This is a picture from a particularly large school from a couple of years ago.

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Old 03-17-2011, 08:48 PM   #5
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I'm sure these will taste a lot fresher. The last fish fry left stains on my eyeballs.
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Old 03-18-2011, 05:04 AM   #6
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Neat pictures.
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Old 03-18-2011, 08:11 AM   #7
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It looks like the magnet thingies in Wooly Willie.
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Old 03-18-2011, 08:25 AM   #8
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...they are frightened of something.
Looks like they're trying to escape the photographer's feet. Bet they stink.
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Old 03-18-2011, 11:20 AM   #9
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Fish swim in schools for protection, right? So these fish are trying extra hard to protect themselves by swimming in an extra tight school: they are frightened of something. Yes it seems reasonable that they could be frightened as a result of the tsunami.
Or perhaps the whole Japan thing awakened something dark and deep that was best left undisturbed? Are the fish trying to warn us of something?
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Old 03-18-2011, 11:29 AM   #10
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Imma gonna tell you sort of the same thing I told my friend who insisted that the fish in her tank was swimming upside down and weird because the fish "wanted us to know" that it was pregnant.

Fish don't really give a hoot whether you know about them or not. I don't even think they know you exist, let alone that they would get in a group to warn the humans of the upcoming apocalypse.

Fish are selfish like that. Egocentric little fishies.
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Old 03-18-2011, 02:43 PM   #11
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Looks like a shark
Its a dolphin.
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Old 03-18-2011, 04:51 PM   #12
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Its a dolphin.
thank you. 11 posts? Cellar, I am disappoint.
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Old 03-18-2011, 09:44 PM   #13
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Fish swim upside down because their swim bladder is out of wack.
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Old 03-20-2011, 09:37 AM   #14
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The tsunami changed the currents, and water temperatures, along the shoreline.
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