Huge fish kill reported in Plaquemines Parish

KundaLini

Plaquemines Parish officials have asked state wildlife officials to investigate what they said is a massive fish kill at Bayou Chaland on the west side of the Mississippi River late Friday. Photographs the parish distributed of the area shows an enormous amount of dead fish floating atop the water.

The fish kill was reported to the Louisiana Department of Wildlife & Fisheries and the cause has not yet been determined, the parish said. The fish were found in an area that has been impacted by the oil from the BP oil spill, the parish said.

The dead fish include pogies, redfish, drum, crabs, shrimp and freshwater eel, the parish said.

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Oil?

DirtySanchez

Holy shit I thought that was a picture of pavement at first. I was like why is he showing a road or driveway in an article about fish. That's not cool.

Mayberry

Damn, I almost didn't read this cause I saw the 'pavement' and thought it was some sort of troll

fanglekai

Jambalaya, anyone?

bornkiller

Damn I thought it was a road as well.
That'd seriously stink.:(

Unknown

Jesus christ. I thought you were trolling, with fish and a pavement
So did a lot of people, apparently.

Anyway, amazing.

Professor Elm

Holy hell, indeed it looks like a road. Poor fishies. I think BP should get sued for all this death, it's just like an aquatic plague.