100,000 dead fish in Arkansas--just a day after 2000 dead birds fell from the sky 125 miles away?

[trumad]

This has the makings of a environmental disaster.

State officials are investigating why thousands of fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River last week.

Officials are expected to release their estimate of the total number of dead fish Monday, local NBC station KARK 4 News reported. It is likely to be in the hundreds of thousands.

The fish were found Thursday by a tugboat operator along a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River near the city of Ozark.

The mass kill occurred just one day before thousands of blackbirds dropped dead from the sky in Beebe, Ark., which is 125 miles away.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40887450/ns/us_news-weird_news/

[monmouth]

1. Would Gawd be sending a message to Arkansas??? n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Agreed. Almost Biblical when you add this to the die-offs of honeybees and bats.

[DainBramaged]

3. Pesticide dump?

One never knows.....and we may never know....

[Champion Jack]

5. Would pesticide only kill one species of fish?

[pipoman]

8. The other articles say no, it would kill all species..

that said, drum are a vermin fish in these parts. I am sure they play a role in the ecology, but they do tend to take over and over populate.

[flamin lib]

4. My SIL is a licensed exterminator and he tells me there is a

pesticide that kills birds in the same way as this link
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x539978
They eat poisoned bait and litterally die in mid flight.

With a fish kill near by the two incidents may be related, but the birds would not have flown more than a few hundred yards.

[pipoman]

9. And so far I believe it is only one species of bird and one fish

red winged black birds are often found around water though.

[pipoman]

6. Last I heard it was 5,000 birds..

[Pisces]

7. This is more than a little odd.

[PhillySane]

10. 500 quakes in central Arkansas

I put this up a little while back. Can't say if all these things are related but it gets you thinking.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/12/23/arkansas.earthquakes/index.html?iref=allsearch

[BonnieJW]

11. And all those tornadoes last week.

It's really biblical.

[Turbineguy]

12. Investigate the Clintons!

Again.

:sarcasm:

[felix_numinous]

13. Red wing blackbirds

are one of my very favorites, I love their songs, they are so cheerful and happy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5ipK3ojrTU&feature=related