Mass sardine beaching hits northern Japan

Do they know something we don't?

Whatever they knew doesn't matter now, they're dead.

Can't they ship it all to that cat island and keep them feelines happy?

These kind of events are a natural and fairly common occurrence.

Sardines will often beach themselves en masse due to being chased by predatory fish.

Other reasons include lack of oxygen from overcrowding of the shoal, or running into a cold current that paralyzes them.

Lots of fertiliser for some lucky gardeners

Picture would’ve been nice.

Newgirlintown

You can see the picture from the below website

https://www.bernama.com/en/world/news.php?id=2379832

A town in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido experienced a massive sardine beaching in late December but has struggled to find a company to dispose of the fish due to the New Year holidays, town officials said Monday.

That's what happens when everybody takes a holiday at the same time. Same for Golden Week and Obon.

nought to do with holidays (tho' methinks too many) juvenile shoaling fish (e.g sardines have not even been taught the seasons), even pilchards adult shoaling fish beach on Atlantic east coast regularly during polar freezy spells. Methinks the Residents should get off their sofas,and dispense with 'we hope they'. New year public responsibility.

Mass beaching of whales and other crustaceans have occurred frequently in the past. And so, I suspected the culprit for the sardines' mass beaching was submarine sonars. Is it submarine sonars this time around, too, that caused the sardines' mass beaching.

However, they seem to have been already dead before being washed ashore. And so, the sudden change of warm to cold currents may have caused it.

Release a lot of cats there.

Problem solved.

Just freeze them all and wait for that season when everyone complains because of the cost of sardines and laments the decline of them.

Just freeze them all and wait for that season when everyone complains because of the cost of sardines and laments the decline of them.

There’s never really been a shortage of sardines.

Perhaps you are confusing them with the Pacific Saury or “Sanma” that has been declining due to China and Russia increasing their catches before fishing season begins in Japan, and the Saury are not yet considered to be “market size” by Japanese standards.

I like sardines, yummy and good for you too. Not dead ones washed up on a beach of course.

Surely the toxic waste poisonous water from Fukushima deversals had nothing to do with this... /s