--- On Tue, 5/5/09, Rani <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Rani <[email protected]> > Subject: another dead turtle on the beach > To: [email protected] > Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2009, 6:08 PM > Another dead turtle on the beach.. > > > I live in north goa near the beach. every hot season we > get black oil slicks on the beach, it congeals into thick > tar.. and dead sea creatures wash up on the beach. Last week > the beach was full of dead jellyfish.. thousands, I think > they are probably like an 'indicator species', if they > die off it's a warning that the ecosystem is toxic. one > year I saw a dead baby whale.. it was caught in the fishing > nets and drowned, I often see dolphins, luckily, but I worry > for them when I usually can count up to 400 boats before I > see 1 dolphin. Today I saw a dead endangered olive ridley > turtle on aswem beach, .. last month on mandrem beach there > was another huge beaked whale, (probably very rare and > endangered) an amazing looking creature.. also caught in the > nets.. > > My daily fish curry rice is starting to taste bitter, > because of the real cost to the free beautiful wild > creatures of the ocean and the poisoning of our food > supply, im sure the fish eating this black oil will be toxic > food for us all. > > Ive heard the oil comes because this time every year the > boats clean their tanks? Isnt this illegal? Is there any way > to stop this? > > The rivers here are also toxic, as some shacks empty their > sewage directly into the river that again, the local > fishermen are fishing to feed their families.. I dread to > think what poison we are all consuming. > > Yours sincerely > Veronica Barrett > > > > http://www.do-not-zzz.com
