Greetings,
On September 18th Jan Kocian noted a sizable patch of stressed and possibly dying benthic animals in the Coupeville area. He first posted about it here in his "Whidbey Island Critters" thread on September 26th.
Here is an article on that event written by Dr. Ron Shimek (with illustrations by Jan):
http://www.reef2rainforest.com/2014/11/ ... get-sound/
The article discusses the sorts of things that might cause such an event as well as why it's so difficult to really figure out exactly what might be going on.
Eventually yours,
Alex
Jan's dead zone
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