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Article: Big fish kill leaves experts puzzled, landowners gasping.
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- The Blade (Toledo, OH)
- Article date:
- May 6, 2006
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Byline: Jim Sielicki
May 6--Thousands of carcasses of freshwater drum are piling up along the shores of Lake Erie, leaving wildlife experts puzzled as to the cause and lakefront property owners holding their noses.
The fish, also known as sheephead, are unpopular with anglers. But their deaths in the last several weeks have created a mystery for fish biologists.
Jeff Tyson, fisheries biology supervisor with Ohio's Sandusky Fish Research Unit, said yesterday the state has fielded at least 300 telephone calls in the last week alone about the fish kill.
Biologists have ruled out a thermal inversion, or fluctuation in the water's ...