Infant dolphin deaths still on rise

[nalnn]

Source: Sun Herald Online

The number of dolphins dead this year in Mississippi and Alabama has reached 48. Of those, 39 are infants or stillborn, according to a NOAA Fisheries report today.

This week the small carcasses have washed ashore in Mississippi along the beaches of Long Beach, Pass Christian and East Ship and Sand islands and in Alabama at Orange Beach and Dauphin Island.

The number of dolphin deaths confirmed in the northern Gulf, from Apalachicola, Fla., to the Louisiana border with Texas, the coastal area effected by the BP oil spill, is 87, with 46 of them infant calves or stillborn.

Read more: http://www.sunherald.com/2011/03/04/2915749/infant-dolphin-deaths-still-on.html

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Apparently I was mistaken when I supposed that we were running out of dolphins.

[defendandprotect]

1. I'm sure BP/Obama are highly interested in tracking these Dolphin deaths -- !!!

Rushing to the rescue?

We here in NJ are going to have temperatures tomorrow 3/5 at 59 degrees and

on Saturday at 61 degrees!!

Spring isn't here yet and Summer is rolling in on a jet!!



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