Mass fish suicide in Iceland

[Snow]

Spoiler

I'm not gonna bother posting a news article to this story since it will be in Icelandic and google translate won't help you.

Basically in Kolgrafafjörður all these fish, herring to be precise, swam to shore and offed themselves. The numbers are believed to be a few hundred tonnes (for you non standard unit people, a tonne is 1000kg. That's a lot). Obviously scientists are puzzled and they're working on it. A specialist said it was unlikely that they did this because of low oxygen levels in the sea. They also ruled out that Orcas scared them on land.

Not much else too this besides the amazing picture of it all.

If that wasn't a satisfying piece of news, apparently, according to a new study, one third of Americans believe that all the recent natural disasters are because the Apocalypse is near and of course the majority of that third are Christians.

Please don't ask me how to pronounce Kolgrafafjörður and try to refrain from any reference to volcanoes.

 

[PhilipB]

Didn't this happen around the same time last year as well? Wonder what causes it, very weird.

 

[kps88]

Wasn't it birds once as well?

 

[fishfingers15]

It's the 21st December thing I tell ya

 

[Hal9000]

How did they get that far in land? I smell hoax.

That first picture looks like a photoshop

 

[Wibble]

Or the tide went out perhaps?

 

[Dargonk]

first picture does look rather dodgy.

Its happened in the past with birds and I think even whales all beaching themselvse. One of those things that just happen for some unknown reason.

Though lets go with its a sign the end of the world is near

 

[holyland red]

Spoiler

If that wasn't a satisfying piece of news, apparently, according to a new study, one third of Americans believe that all the recent natural disasters are because the Apocalypse is near and of course the majority of that third are Christians.

Please don't ask me how to pronounce Kolgrafafjörður and try to refrain from any reference to volcanoes.

Spoiler

My guess is that at least a third of the atheists blame the Americans for all this shit.

 

[Raoul]

Why aren't there any animals or birds eating the fish ?

 

[Zarlak]

Out of respect.

 

[Penna]

Out of respect.

Captain Birdseye has obviously developed some sort of piscine mind-control.

 

[Member 39557]

It's an ideal opportunity to use them to try and cut down the mightiest tree in the forest.

 

[Tomalonge]

Is this an act of cod?

I'll go.

 

[WeasteDevil]

I thought that fish don't exist? The CAF told me that they do not exist!!!!

 

[Plechazunga]

Either they don't exist, or we're all fish. You have to choose.

Looks like this lot chose option A.

 

[MrMarcello]

Or the tide went out perhaps?

You can't explain that!

 

[CassiusClaymore]

How shellfish.

 

[Tomalonge]

How shellfish.

Easy lad.

It's just not the plaice.

 

[Red_Aaron]

they must've thought they'd reached fin-land

 

[Pexbo]

They've probably been reading the Caf.

 

[JustAFan]

How did they get that far in land? I smell hoax.

That first picture looks like a photoshop

The tide comes in, the tide goes out.

 

[holyland red]

How did they get that far in land? I smell hoax.

That first picture looks like a photoshop

Fishy stuff.

I'm out of here...

 

[Plechazunga]

You can't explain that!

 

[JustAFan]

Perhaps the pressure of school got to them

 

[Redlambs]

They've probably been reading the Caf.

That was my first thought

 

[utdalltheway]

my eyes are tired from reading now but can't decide whether to kipper not.

 

[JakeC]

Something fishy about this.

 

[Tomalonge]

Gill this ever end?!

 

[JustAFan]

If anyone thinks of any more fish puns, let minnow

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

I'm herring these fish were depressed.

 

[VeevaVee]

Anyone else as thirsty as me? I'm perched but there's a trout

 

[Tomalonge]

If anyone thinks of any more fish puns, let minnow

I thought I heard one from the other room, but they weren't even talking about fish. My herring must be off.

Damnit Dwayne! You're a cod and a flounder, good sir.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

Perhaps they were poissoned?

(French pun woot!)

 

[Member 39557]

Perhaps they were poissoned?

(French pun woot!)

 

[VeevaVee]

Perhaps they were poissoned?

(French pun woot!)

Maybe someone péchéd in the water

 

[Tomalonge]

I've haddock enough of this thread.

 

[Dr. Dwayne]

I've haddock enough of this thread.

I'm going to keep posting for the halibut.

 

[VeevaVee]

I've haddock enough of this thread.

Yeah it's full of pikeys

 

[Zarlak]

What a load of scallops. The shitness of these puns has been turbot charged.

 

[Snow]

Why aren't there any animals or birds eating the fish ?

There simply aren't any animals there and very few birds. It's also in a fjord where the fishing boats can get to shore so it's a proper mess and very hard to clean. Place smells like, well, rotten fish. Few hundred tonnes of it.