Red Tide Question

[outfished]

Originally Posted by fishsmith

If those were 40 dead piping plovers, they'd drain the ocean.

[PaulS]

the article didn't say that the sand eels were dying, just the terns eating the sand eels. Maybe the red tide doesn't effect the sand eels, but will effect birds. The red tide was concentrated enough in the sand eels to effect terns.

[RickBomba]

I hope I don't get it from osmosis...Lord knows I have enough of the slime from them bastiges all over me for the summer to kill five men!

[baldwin]

To answer the first question, yes, sand eels are finfish. If you are going to look them up, do it under "American sand lance". grb