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Article: ALEWIFE DIE-OFF NO CAUSE FOR ALARM
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- Post-Tribune (IN)
- Article date:
- April 23, 1996
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FISHERIES
Small, dead fish have been washing up on some Lake Michigan beaches lately, but a fish expert says there's no cause for alarm.
The fish are alewives - the same fish that overpopulated and died in such massive amounts in 1967 that some Northwest Indiana and Chicago beaches had to be scraped clean with bulldozers.
This year's alewife die-off won't approach the mid-1960s level, said Jim Francis, fisheries biologist for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. But it's bigger than usual.
Francis said the reasons appear to be natural, not man-made.
The dead alewives used up all their fat reserves during the ...