Mystery of the DEAD herring: What made 20 TONNES of fish wash up on Norwegian …

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Lee Moran

Last updated at 7:53 PM on 2nd January 2012

Thousands of dead herring have been discovered washed up on a north Norwegian beach – prompting Doomsday predictors to hail it as another sign the world is set to end.

More than 20 tonnes of the fish is currently carpeting the beach of Kvaenes, in Nordreisa, with experts views differing on how they have come to be there. One thing is for sure, it will provide welcome ammunition to those believing the Mayan prophecy that 2012 will bring the end of Earth.

Jan-Petter Jorgensen, 44, was walking with his dog Molly when he found the stinky haul.

Washed up: Molly the dog seen walking around the tonnes of dead herring that have mysteriously appeared on a beach at Kvaenes in Nordreisa, northern Norway

He said: ‘People say that something similar happened in the 80s. Maybe the fish have been caught in a deprived oxygen environment, and then died of fresh water?’

Experts have said the school could have been trapped by tidal waters after predatory fish – such as coalfish – chased them towards the shoreline. 

Another theory is that the fish were washed ashore during a recent storm, or trapped in shallow waters and affected by freshwater from a river that flows into the bay.

Jens Christian Holst, of the Institute of Marine Research, said several factors could have come together at once. And he said he hoped they would be able to conduct tests on the dead fish to see if they had died of a disease.

The incident in Norway is not the only mass death mystery over the New Year.

On Sunday, 200 blackbirds mysteriously fell from the sky in a small Arkansas town – although officials now believe the birds were targeted by someone with fireworks, experts say.

Mystery death: One of the hundreds of blackbirds that fell out of the sky on New Year’s Eve in Arkansas

Last month 25 dead horses were discovered at the bottom of a cliff near Glenn Innes, New England.

And similarly bizarre and unexplained massacres took place on the opening days of last year, with millions of spot fish washing up in Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, more blackbirds dying in Arkansas, and masses of marine life dying in a Louisiana bayou.

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Simple answer is testing of new military weapons (probably microwaves) on these poor animals and then veterinary evidence is covered up in order to protect the secrecy of these weapons…

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The fish had heard the horror stories from their grandparents about all the fish caught in nets, dying agonising deaths for no good reason, before being turfed back into the sea, under the EU fishing quota schemes. They decided if that was the way they were going to meet their maker, they would choose the time and the place themselves.

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Hope they are not past there freeze by date…. waste not, want not and all that……

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Maybe Kerry Katona was having a swim there and the fish decided this was their best course of action!

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Paige, England – Nah. Definitely orcsa. If you look really closely, you can see Sir David Attenborough and a camera crew as well. No polar bears though. Far too dangerous.

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Someone was given some important information with a regard to coming up with a theory regarding this event.
Turned out to be a RED HERRING.

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Simple TYPO error from Network of Evil to its` Global Technical Agents.”Congrats on restructuring politics of Middle East.Continue undermining confidence in the Euro,Keep pressure on Iran.Issue plenty of dead herrings to divert public attention”

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Looks like it has HAARP written all over it.
- Ian, Bedfordshire, 02/1/2012 22:34############## My thoughts exactly!

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This is not news. For always birds died suddenly, fish trapped by shallow water and died. Tell us something new

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The dead ponies in Glen Innes had been dumped after being transported without ventilation and their erstwhile owner has been charged so no mystery there.

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