Avian influenza or “bird flu” is hitting Bay Area poultry farms hard, with a quarter of a million birds euthanized in Sonoma County this week alone. Mike Weber, the co-owner of Sunrise Farms in Petaluma, says around 82,000 of his egg-laying chickens had to be euthanized after birds started testing positive for avian flu.
The sea lions vary in decomposition. Several had their bones exposed Monday afternoon.
A late-season Pacific storm that brought damaging winds and more rain and snow to saturated California was blamed for at least two deaths.
It’s only the second time in history that the ocean salmon fishery has been closed in California, and the decision reflects a major decline in fish populations after the state’s driest three-year period on record.
Local officials and scientists have yet to nail down how many fish have died, but the reports have been coming in non-stop since Friday.
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