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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- He may not be a biologist but U.S. Senator Bill Nelson says there is a reason he traveled to Jacksonville to collect samples from the St. Johns River. "I'm going to make sure they've got the samples they need to test," he said.
The senator is concerned about thick frothy foam that appeared in the river about ten days ago.
"That's not natural. That's not a natural phenomenon," said
Re: Florida - Senator Nelson inspects mysterious foam from the St. Johns river
Dead dolphins discovered In St. John's River
Updated: 10/21 11:55 pm
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The St. John's River is home to a diverse group of marine life. Recently, one of the most popular animals, the dolphin, has been showing up dead.
"Came around the corner and I saw something fleshy up on a log. Went around and it was a dolphin obviously. It was kind of a freaky experience, I guess you could say," Justin Haynes said.
Haynes discovered a dead dolphin a few months ago in Dourbin Creek just south of Mandarin. He says in all the days he's spent on the water, he's never seen anything like this.
"It's bad enough seeing dead fish floating on the water, but a large mammal. It's never a good things to see," Haynes said.
Haynes snapped a few pictures and sent them to several groups, including the Marine Science Institute. Researchers told him there's been several other reports of corpses in the last few months.
Re: Florida - Senator Nelson inspects mysterious foam from the St. Johns river
Dead, sore-covered fish in St. Johns River prompts state inquiry
Posted: October 22, 2010 - 12:00am
By Steve Patterson
BOB SELF/The Times-Union
Samples of water and fish are en route to St. Petersburg for testing in an attempt to determine what's causing the sores and fish deaths in the St. Johns River. The deaths should be a call to citizens that the river is in trouble, says Riverkeeper Neil Armingeon.
Fish with sores have begun turning up dead or dying on Jacksonville's riverfront and have triggered an examination by state scientists.
The sores were found on relatively small baitfish, often near a rear fin on the underside of their bodies.
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"There's something still not right about the river," Armingeon said, calling the sores "kind of troubling."
A recent spike in bottlenose dolphin deaths is more than simply unusual.
During a Wednesday meeting concerning the state of the St. Johns River, a waterbody lately inundated with issues ranging from fishkills to foam, University of North Florida scientist Radha Pyati remarked on just how unusual recently reported dolphin deaths are: ?I think the average is only around one to three mortalities a year, and the St. Johns has had at least 14 this summer.? Make that 19, in two months. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 19 dolphin strandings have occurred from early June to mid September ? a striking leap from the average.
Erin Fougeres, a marine mammal biologist with NOAA, says that it?s likely not mere coincidence that the dolphin strandings occurred in unison with a massive fish kill in the same area: ?There are a couple of things that could be happening. The strandings occurred around the same time as a fish kill, so they could be related, or it could be another factor. At this point, the strandings have tapered off, and we are just beginning our investigation.?...
