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Article: Algae Kills Millions of Fish in Texas Lakes.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- March 12, 2003
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By Dina Cappiello, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 12--GRANBURY, Texas--Stray body parts and backbones litter the reservoir's shoreline: heads missing eyes, tail fins without flesh.
Those fish not yet dismembered by the vultures circling overhead float belly up in Lake Granbury's yellowish water -- their scales bruised and spattered with blood.
Since January, nearly 4 million fish along this stretch of the Brazos River, and millions more in four other river systems in West and Central Texas over the past year, have suffered the same fate -- all victims of an underwater biological assault waged by a primitive, ...