Why did 220 Manta Rays wash up dead on a beach in Gaza?

Just spotted this on AOL.co.uk homepage.

Over 200 manta rays have been found dead, washed up on a beach in Gaza, cause apparently unknown?

Anyone on ATS have any ideas as to the possible cause? Yet another mass die off?

LINK to AOL Page

Here's the image from the AOL page



It's quite sad, I've always liked Rays a lot.

It looks like they might be Devil Rays, not Mantas?
(According to a report on deepseanews.com)

LINK to deepseanews article

Suggested causes so far...

Toxic spill
Algal Toxin

hmm.

...and another link, which suggests that they are known locally as "batfish" and that they were caught deliberately?
LINK to maannews.net


Looks like the story may have originated on an Italian news site? (repubblica.it)
There are several more pictures there, and they are quite graphic.

LINK to repubblica site

One of the articles i read said the largest was 17
' wide. www.dailymail.co.uk...

Better to wash up dead in Gaza than alive in Israel.

Double

DUH.

The evil IDF.

My guess is Jesus hates Manta Rays.

It is obviously Steve Irwins revenge stupid manta rays..

reply to post by starfoxxx

Wrong species.
Mantas don't have stingers. Irwin would have known this.

Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by starfoxxx

 

Wrong species.
Mantas don't have stingers. Irwin would have known this.

edit on 2/27/2013 by Phage because: (no reason given)

Well i am glad this is the right species then because those things have stingers.

Methane plumes...we are at over 90 mass animal die-off events so far in 2013. These die offs are caused by dangerous gases, either methane and hydrogen sulfide, and the events will continue to increase. I've posted this same information in the thread about fish in Peru. Here's the numbers on these die-offs.

So far this year there have been 89 known mass die-offs. That's 52 days. That's 1.71 mass die-offs per day. In 2012 there were 464 known events. That's 1.27 mass die-offs per day. That's quite an increase, but in 2011 there were 145 known events. That's only 0.4 events per day.

2011 145 die-offs 0.4 per day
2012 464 die-offs 1.27 per day
2013 89 so far 1.71 per day

Mass die-offs in 2011

Mass die-offs in 2012

Mass die-offs in 2013

Here's the dangerous gas thread with all kinds of information on this methane topic.

www.abovetopsecret.com...

reply to post by starfoxxx

because those things have stingers.

No, they don't.

i'm always saddened to see such group animal die-offs, of which there are ever increasing examples.

reply to post by RoScoLaz

of which there are ever increasing examples.

Publicized examples.

reply to post by Phage



true. imagine all the ones we DON'T hear about. could be lots. or none.

Israel probably trying to starve the palestinians,poisoning the sea,after all they are trying to sink every boat who dares to go fishing,with bazzokas and what not...

Originally posted by Phage
reply to post by starfoxxx

 

because those things have stingers.

No, they don't.

To (too) bad

All this sea death is getting sickening. I'm sure that the numbers are increasing. The people living in these areas all over are saying that this isn't normal. This is not just because we have more access to the news, the number and severity of these dieoff events is increasing worldwide. Either our Manmade altered chemistry is doing something to the animals or Godzilla is back.

Maybe they were overtaken by or succumbed to Death Rays?
/me goes and hides.


But seriously, it looks like someone took time to orient them and lay them out in an orderly fashion.
I'm fairly certain if they washed up on the beach they wouldn't be so orderly.

reply to post by abecedarian


Your right, they are lined up fairly orderly, it doesn't appear that there are drag grooves either. Strange isn't it.