There's a lot of excitement, and some great footage of phenomenal marine creature activity around the California coastline just now.

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CBS News: 100s of whales in bay on California coast; It’s never been like this, we just can’t even believe it — Experts: We just aren’t sure what’s going on; “A once-in-a-lifetime chance… unheard of, it’s unbelievable, nobody’s seen this”

Published: November 30th, 2013 at 4:22 pm ET

Gary Griggs, director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and Long Marine Laboratory at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Nov. 29, 2013: Pelicans, sea lions, whales, and dolphins have been in an unusual feeding frenzy, astounding all of us who have visited the coast in the past few weeks. From Natural Bridges to Capitola and beyond, and well as offshore, the food chain is in full bloom at a time when we don’t normally experience this concentration of feeding animals. [...] The intense blooms of life in October and nearly into December are odd. [...] Exactly why we are seeing these incredible numbers of anchovies isn’t completely clear. There are some ideas that surface, perhaps the warmer water in the bay is more conducive to anchovy egg and larval survival right now, and the fish know that. But we aren’t sure. [...] Now if you were reading carefully, you would notice I changed subjects, diverted your interest, and never really answered the question of why there are all those anchovies out there. If I was absolutely certain I knew the answer, I would definitely share it with you.

Nancy Black, marine biologist with Monterey Bay Whale Watch, San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 11, 2013: “This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, so people should see it [...] This is just unheard of. It’s unbelievable. Nobody has seen this anywhere in California. This is a record year for this feeding aggregation of humpbacks and sea lions. There’s just miles and miles of fish out there.”

CBS News, Nov. 27, 2013: [It's] blowing away even avid whale watchers such as Karen Sheffer. “It’s never been like this” she said. “This is phenomenal.” [...] There are also dolphins and hundreds of sea lions. They are chasing an unexplained explosion of anchovies in the bay. Killer whales showed up to hunt the sea lions. “There’s easily over 100 to 200 whales in Monterey Bay,” said Nancy Black, a marine biologist and the captain of a whale watching boat. “So this is like, you know, so exceptional we just can’t even believe it.” [...] “So I’m just trying to tell the people how lucky they are to really witness this,” Black said. She knows this sea-life show will eventually end. For now, she says, just enjoy the view.

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It looks amazing.

These experts can't explain it.

I wonder if they've heard of Fukushima.

I don't know much about whales and dolphins.

Should they be there or is this a change that we should worry about?

bear in mind I'm Scottish and when I went canoeing in 4th year in the the firth of forth, the teacher went 'look there's a shark'

'Look there's 3 sharks'

Turned out he was saying Shags (some sort of sea bird) but I've never paddled so fast in my life

Well they're reporting it as though it's a brilliant opportunity to watch nature close up, as those numbers of beasts haven't been witnessed in the area before. And it might have some innocent explanation that hasn't yet been discovered or thought of by the experts mentioned.

But if it transpires that their presence in that location is actually due to avoidance of waters impacted by the radiation leakage from Fukushima, then that's a different kettle of fish.

Probably a good idea to not eat fish caught in the north Pacific.

Poor buggers.