Category Cockles

Cockles, Dolphins, Fish

Masses of dead cockles, dead fish and a dolphin washed ashore in Miri, Malaysia

A dolphin believed to be an adult male Fineless Porpoise (Neophocaena phocaenoides) locally known as Lumba-lumba was among dead marine creatures washed ashore since last Monday. Oswald Braken Tisen from Sarawak Marine Mammal Stranding Network (SMMSN) said a staff…

Earth Extremities
April 7, 2017

Clams, Cockles, Crabs, Fish

Thousands of fish, cockles, clams and crabs dying along Hood Canal in Seattle, USA

A lack of oxygen in southern Hood Canal is killing fish, crab and other marine life, according to Seth Book, a biologist with the Skokomish Tribe who has been monitoring the marine waterway. Through the month of August, Book…

Earth Extremities
September 8, 2015

Cockles

Mass die off of Cockles ’causes alarm’ in Galicia, Spain

The alarm has been given, again, Lane: the samples that have been conducted at the mouth of Ulla point to a new episode of mortality among the population of cockles. This species was razed two years ago, according to Sea…