I doubt it.
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/new-...-wind-development-linked-to-any-whale-deaths?
There are plenty of other possible causes, and I'll admit they might stack.
Covid Vaccines (e.g. aquavac) ???
Above is sarcasm but many anti-vaxxers have been stating for awhile now that aquavac will eventually doom the ocean fish.
My point, anti-vaxxers are worried about the jab, masks, and mandates...they forgot about the food they eat (e.g. livestock, fish) that have been vaccinated long before the Pandemic.
Types of Aquaculture Vaccines
There are many types of fish vaccines but relatively few types are available for commercial use as fully licensed vaccines.The most common are bacterins consisting of killed or attenuated bacterial pathogens. The killed vaccines are safe, relatively simple to produce, and for some diseases can be quite effective. An attenuated vaccine contains a pathogen that is still alive but its ability to cause disease (or sickness) in an animal has been eliminated.These often are more effective than killed vaccines because a live pathogen can stimulate a stronger immune response in the animal. Other vaccines that utilize parts of a pathogen (e.g. sub-unit, recombinant, DNA, or RNA) are less common but some are available and more are being developed by researchers.One example for aquaculture would be the APEX-IHN vaccine, a DNA vaccine licensed in Canada, and of course in humans the new Pfizer or Moderna COVID vaccines that use genetic material (i.e. mRNA) that when injected result in the production of the main coronavirus surface protein by your cells. You therefore see part of the virus without ever being exposed to it and in turn your body is triggered to respond to the “foreign” substance, produce antibodies that recognize and bind to this protein, and ultimately neutralize the real virus if and when it is encountered.
Delivery of Fish Vaccines
Aquaculture vaccines can be delivered differently than those used for humans and other animals, where almost all are delivered by injection. Although there are many injectable vaccines used for fish, these are primarily utilized for high value species or when losses to a specific disease occur at larger sizes (e.g. when Atlantic salmon smolts are moved to seawater). For fish that are susceptible to a target disease during juvenile stages or the cost of injection is prohibitive, immersion vaccines are the most common. Immersion vaccination is less stressful on fish and can be administered to fish during earlier life stages. Another method is oral vaccination where the vaccine is mixed in or top-coated on the feed. This is the easiest and least stressful way to vaccinate fish but is usually less effective because the vaccine components must pass through the gut and can be degraded during digestion in the stomach.
Herd Immunity
So, what does herd immunity mean and how does this relate to aquaculture vaccines?Herd immunity is when much of a population (animals, humans, fish, etc.) is immune to a specific disease. When this occurs, the pathogen that causes that disease (virus, bacteria, etc.) is unable to persist in a population of vaccinated animals and the disease is eliminated. This usually requires a large portion of the susceptible population to be vaccinated to see this desired effect. For aquaculture, where large populations of fish are in the water, it can have a dramatic effect especially on pathogens that require a host to survive (such as most viruses).It may not eliminate a pathogen if it persists in nature or within carrier animals, but if the population is vaccinated, the number of diseased animals shedding the pathogen into the water column is reduced. This can not only reduce disease on the farm but limit the potential spread to other susceptible fish in the environment.
https://www.aquaculturenorthamerica.com/vaccines-may-be-the-biggest-tool-in-the-fish-health-toolbox/
Now joking aside although aqua vaccines are a real thing...the planet is warming at an alarming speed and we've
set record heat temperatures in 2023 all over the world including in our oceans.
Whales can
not navigate these increasing ocean temperatures. Simply, the weak ones will die
suddenly...
unexpectantly. Does this sound familiar ?...ask the anti-vaxxers.
wrbtrader
