Well - it is a news story and information is sketchy
but I will keep an eye out for follow up and look for
some more information a bit later when more might be
known.
If it is accumulated toxin (these are a top predator
feeding on other predatious species) then this is
concerning.
- Stephen Selden ( www.envirotalk.com.au )
--- Andrew Taylor <> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 08:33:11AM +1000, Stephen
> Selden wrote:
> > The only sea eagles nesting on the Parramatta
> River
> > have both been found dead, possibly after
> consuming
> > fish contaminated with deadly toxins...
> >
>
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/15/1095221666203.html
>
> What pollutants might be present in Sydney Harbour
> fish at sufficient
> levels to have an acute effect? I understand how
> accumulated doses could
> be lethal - but this would have to be an acute dose.
> And of course fish
> with natural deadly toxins are a common in the
> harbour but presumably
> not the cause.
>
> Isn't some sort of poison, perhaps via a mammal
> carcass, more likely?
> Or a pathogen?
>
> I guess these were the WBSE that I'd seen a couple
> of times soaring over
> Glebe - very sad news.
>
> Andrew Taylor
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