Pat Shingleton for July 9, 2008
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In the 1800s, the thriving fish population in Limfjord Sound, Denmark, mysteriously disappeared. Recently, it was determined an isthmus that separated Limfjord Sound from the North Sea collapsed during a storm. This raised the salinity level of the western part of the sound, killing the white fish and eel fish. Researchers from the Natural History Museum of Denmark studied fish remains, tax accounts, church registers and monastery records to write a paper that explains the deterioration of the anchovy and black sea bream population from 7,000 B.C. to the present. Weatherwise magazine reports rising temperatures in waters off Scandinavia will bring back these species once prevalent in prehistoric times.
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