Overfishing: Oceans Are Dying
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| 800 dead penguins found dead in Southern Chile |
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| Sunday, 29 March 2009 22:29 | |||
Four of the bird carcasses have been sent to Valdivia’s Universidad Austral for testing. Magellanic penguins are native to the waters around Chile and Argentina. Although they are not an endangered species, they are vulnerable to oil spills and – according to a penguin expert from the University of Washington – climate change. Rising temperatures are displacing fish, forcing magellanic penguins to swim an average of 25 miles further from their nests in search of food, professor Dee Boersma discovered. The extra “commute” is also shortening their breeding period, she found. (From patagoniatimes.cl, Chile) 
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In just the past few days, hundreds of dead magellanic penguins (Spheniscus Magellanicus) have washed ashore in Chile’s Region XI, the daily La Tercera reported Sunday. So far experts are in the dark about what’s killing the sea birds, more than 800 of which have been found on the beaches of Las Niñas and Los Piojos near Queule.
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