Local Authorities Report Vast Fish Kill In Plaquemines Parish, LA - Photos - Times-Pic

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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.

Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said he has asked Wildlife & Fisheries for a quick determination of the cause. The parish has also requested testing by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

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http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/huge_fish_kill_reported_in_pla.html

[JuniperLea]

1. This is so sad...

I hope someone gets to the bottom of this right away. Frankly I'm surprised we haven't seen this happen yet... I'm sure it has, we just haven't seen it.

[Xipe Totec]

2. And so it begins

You can't spill that much oil in the Gulf and then pretend it mysteriously disappeared.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. My bet is on the Corexit and other crap they were spraying.

My other bet is "they" will test for oil, find now, pronounce themselves confused, not test for any of Corexit's components.
Or blame it on red tide.

God, look how many fish there are in the pic!
What a rich fishing area that used to be.

Deeply maddening, sad, events.

[Blue Owl]

3. Looks like a paved roadway in that second pic

How awful when you realize it's dead fish.


:(

[Dead_Parrot]

5. Bloody hell. nt

[HockeyMom]

6. Cover ups

They want everybody to think it is all gone and there are no consequences. People have short memories and forget how long the Exon Valdez repercussions lingered. That was a drip in the bucket in comparison. However, we cannot hurt the tourist industry and the snowbirds will also be coming south very soon. If we cannot have compassion for the wildlife, how many HUMANS will get sick because of this?

How much media did that family one hour north of Tampa get? They were all getting sick and it was found that Cortex was in their POOL water. Imagine what is in the Gulf waters then?

[Nihil]

7. Cover-ups are one thing, scams are another ... (NOT the OP, the side track!)

> How much media did that family one hour north of Tampa get?
> They were all getting sick and it was found that Cortex was
> in their POOL water. Imagine what is in the Gulf waters then?

They found that Corexit was in their pool filter water.
Strangely enough, it was also in the pool filter solution that
they (and many other people) put into their pool filter.

:eyes:

Note: I am in no way claiming that the OP event is a scam, just that
the highly publicised family with the "Corexit in their pool" was.

[MountainLaurel]

8. There was a second huge kill yesterday

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2010/09/second_big_fish_kill_in_less_t.html