25000 Fish Killed in Hawaii Molasses Spill

[Huly]

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/23448407/25-thousand-fish-killed-in-matson-molasses-spill?app&hpt=us_bn10

 

 

[Integral9]

What on earth do you need 233,000 gallons of molasses for?   I bought a pint of the stuff about 5 years ago and I still have the same jar!

[Coral Hind]

That's some sad news. I hope the shipping company pitches in and helps clean it up.

 

What on earth do you need 233,000 gallons of molasses for?   I bought a pint of the stuff about 5 years ago and I still have the same jar!

That's funny! I guess the average person really doesn't have much use for it. I lived on a farm where we used a couple hundred gallons a week to mix with the silage or trough food to make it sweeter, plus it has a high energy content.

[bqq100]

I think there is enough experimental data within the reefkeeping community on the effects of overdosing carbon... We really didn't need a large scale test of it 

 

 

What on earth do you need 233,000 gallons of molasses for?   I bought a pint of the stuff about 5 years ago and I still have the same jar!

 

To make rum! 

[Integral9]

So how do we clean this up?   Convert one of the sunken battleships into the world's largest protein skimmer?  Algae harvesting? 

[Coral Hind]

I think simple dilution with the daily tides and run off out of the bay will dissolve and remove it.

[zygote2k]

mmmmm, molasses. ever see Super Troopers where they chugged the syrup? The real contest is a whole jar of blackstrap.

[zygote2k]

seriously though, I'll bet Hawaii has tankers full sailing around every day. Surely one or two have accidents and this happens.

[smallreef]

The biggest problem is so many things that can spill normally float so can be contained...this happened and it falls to the floor and eventually dissipates...but chokes everything out in the process...