Masses Of Fish Surge Near Surface On Acapulco, Mexico Coast (PHOTOS)

ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) -- Something fishy is up in Acapulco.

Masses of sardines, anchovies, stripped bass and mackerel surged close to shore Friday on one beach in the Mexican resort city, packed so tightly near the surface they looked like an oil slick from above.

Delighted fishermen rushed out in wooden motor boats, abandoning their rods and nets and simply scooping the fish up with buckets.

"It was so much fun. There were about 20 or 30 fishermen and there were people who came with their kids to take advantage of it," fisherman Carlos Morales said.

The fishermen attributed the strange phenomenon to the unusual currents unleashed by tsunami that followed the earthquake in Japan.

Experts couldn't be sure.

"It would fall into that category where you would love to make the connection, but who knows?" said Rich Briggs, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. "Tsunamis can change local currents, but it's hard to make a firm connection."

(Photos courtesy of AP)

Comments

[Anne Mccormick]

10:54 PM on 03/18/2011

look at all those fish. the fishermen must have had a field day

[Lahonda]

03:16 PM on 03/18/2011

Rush went for a dip.

[1deepstar]

02:24 PM on 03/18/2011

Shifting magnetic fields causing navigation problems in birds and fish, beaching whales, etc... all indicators of a possible earthquake in the making...

[bangagong]

12:38 PM on 03/18/2011

Before research money is spent on this, someone should ask the U.S. military if they're doing anything in the area that might have caused it.

[Kenz300]

11:48 PM on 03/17/2011

Way too many deaths of fish, birds and cows recently.

I sure hope some organization that is impartial and honest is investigating what is going on.

I would not want to be the one that ignored the canary in the coal mine.

Where is our generations Rachel Carson?
Rachel
Rachel Carson

[drjasonmd]

01:52 PM on 03/20/2011

His name is Ralph Nader.

[Hypnos Rises]

06:44 PM on 03/16/2011

When strange and unsettling evidence can by found washed up on our shores daily for well over a year, we shouldn't assume it was totally a recent disaster. A great deal of our oceans are now uninhabitable to all sealife.

Strange that no matter to whatever else is suggested, we always come back to human cause and affect. Is it so odd to believe that after all the violence we've committed upon the oceans, that the food chain is now falling apart?

[edgemo]

05:10 AM on 03/16/2011

But what about the children? Won't somebody think about the children?

[chabuka]

01:51 AM on 03/16/2011

Don't suppose it's possible that those fish originated from...oh..I don't know, the shores of Japan....?

[chaz]

11:58 PM on 03/15/2011

I don't want to suggest anything but there seems to be a lot of this going on. Now that I think of It I'm sure there's nothing to worry about because Fox and Clear Channel aren't concerned with such events.

[MikeWebster]

02:45 AM on 03/16/2011

So long as it's not part of the new Islamic socialist caliphate, it's probably nothing to worry about.

[sensimilla]

11:14 AM on 03/17/2011

is that any worse than the pseudo-christian corporatist state we have now?

not much...

[Buffyboy]

10:53 PM on 03/15/2011

It was fun, they guy says? I think it's possibly ecologically apocalyptic, not fun, man.

[Dham4201]

01:32 AM on 03/16/2011

fun for Mexican fishermen who have far less to lose when the Apocalypse arrives

[tubette]

02:37 PM on 03/18/2011

huh?

[drjasonmd]

01:53 PM on 03/20/2011

When you fish for a living, an abundance of fish is considered a blessing.

[Robearbeach]

10:12 PM on 03/15/2011

The fish know something!

[drjasonmd]

01:53 PM on 03/20/2011

How to end up in my belly?

[LeafFan4ever]

09:18 PM on 03/15/2011

it's probably the alien civilization living near by in the ocean lmao!!

or it's the american government experimenting on radar under water and that drives the fish nuts and that is true unlike my first comment.. but to be honest it could be anything but i am sure man had some sort of help in this!!

[IMOPINIONH8D]

09:04 PM on 03/15/2011

This looks awlful fishy to me.

[LittleRedEngine]

06:39 PM on 03/15/2011

Funny how people on the right are still for under water drilling.

Actually, not funny at all...

[The Lone Stranger]

05:44 PM on 03/15/2011

Turns out the whales caused the earthquake and Tsunami to make it easier to catch fish!