Talk:Baltic Sea

Notes

I'm not sure what Storebaelt is called in English. Great Belt sounds much more reasonable than Big Belt and Google yields more (and more plausible) results. I'll change it for now but it would be nice if some would look it up in a map or atlas. Thanks, Kosebamse 13:13 May 13, 2003 (UTC)

Demographics

The demographics section says that 15 million people live within 10 km of the coast, but then goes on to say that 90% of the 22 million people living in cities > 250,000 live within 10 km of the coast, which would give 19.8 million people in that area. Anyone know which number is more accurate? Sort of pedantic, but it looks pretty silly for the article to apparently contradict itself within a couple lines.

Largest body of brackish water

The first para of the section Geophysical data says:

Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea, perhaps the largest body of brackish water in the world (other possibilities include the Black Sea, Hudson Bay and the Caspian Sea).

which couldn't be true if the competitor Black Sea is brackish: the mean depth of the Baltic Sea is 55 m, but the Black Sea have an average depth of perhaps something like 1000 m. I think the article speculates and mistakes area for "body" (mass). Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 07:12, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

Not for Scoring Points - Baltic Fish Death Undone!

After WWF and various other "whistle blowers": But for "colleagial" exchange of information and some slight suspicions of something that can possibly be unturned:
Concerning the Baltic sea and fish death: can it be that, on par with (synthetic) rubber production, that an unknown gasoline derivative (Xylitin? or some) has caused massive "unfruitful"/hostile conditions for fish to grow/find food there so that ALL attempts in restoring the fish banks of the Baltic Sea will fail? Xylitol is also a questioned substance of a derivative (sugar) kind that I don't want to enter the discussion of! Good luck with investigations! Have a nice day! (Remember that polluters are dishonest and possibly hideous people and that GREAT CARE needs to be displayed in order to approach this!)
And for seriousness more, that I've taken the med. doctors of epidemiology/bacteriolology/hygiene for slight alcohol tendencies, whether on the black side or the alcoholism itself! Salicylic acids of antbacteria products! Good?
I do not yet say that this story will produce these or other successes, just that I note a possible investigative angle! Alright? (Don't expect me to "toss and turn" to answer you. I have scarce time on my hands and "a bit" to do.) --LFOlsnes-Lea 13:54, 24 September 2012 (UTC)

I guess I withdraw from the above, while leaving the suspicion "alive" for those who want to investigate possible scenarios. While certainly not "still water" in the extreme "brackish" water sense (hence the storms, given the surface area that the winds affect), there may very well be governing principles in nature that regulates the beings fit for fresh waters and salty waters, respectively. Thus, I think most may be looking into what can fit into this Baltic Sea in terms of sea life able to cope with the salinity and the weak currents that probably bring in very little oxygen and nutrition. So what about the Dartmouth "Vade" play in the World and the Shakespeare creatures introduction to USA? I (deeply) respect the research restraints on the Baltic Sea and I have no need for extremities. That we consider this in peace and "enjoy that pace of research" connected to the whole area! Cheers! --95.34.121.21 (talk) 16:15, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

Informed suspicions:

Suspected insertion of 25 tons of "unknown/poisoning chemical substances". Time: 1985, appx.

(Not to say that only 25 tons are enough "to do it", but that the polluters have been awful "to earn that mark".)

Suspect of pollution: Denmark. (USA is cleared, I think.)

Result: Fish death, other bio-deaths, vast brackish water bodies, dead Baltic Seas.

Pollution chemical: Kerosene, a hydrocarbons product, other name is paraffin, used also for "oil-lamps".

Suggested confirmation price tag: 20 Mn SEK for mainly a basin, naturalised and filled with sea water by direct filling system.

Now what? Yes, also check pollution records for the Baltic Sea nations. Other? Get the confirmation started. Cheers!

It's also worth noting that the track record for catches of fish of the fish stocks themselves, historically, will make a fine contribution to identifying "time and place" for this brackish sea to occur. 109.189.211.249 (talk) 23:12, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Note on other Wikipedia page: [page of Clupeiformes (Herring-like fish) and other].

"Salinity permeation principle"

A " principle of salinity permeation" is unfamiliar to the average Wikipedia reader and needs some explanatory phrases.--Wetman (talk) 18:19, 16 December 2012 (UTC)