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Article: ROTTING FISH FOULING MAINE COAST
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 10, 1990
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HARPSWELL, Maine - Nature caused the massive pogie kill in
Quahog Bay, and it will be up to nature to get rid of the
thousands of rotting fish littering the shoreline, officials say.
Past cleanups of coves filled with the dead pogies, also
called menhaden, have been "very expensive and less than totally
successful," said Marshall Murphy, spokesman for the state
Department of Marine Resources.
Vast schools of pogies were chased into Quahog Bay by
feeding bluefish about a month ago, an area businessman said.
The schools severely depleted the oxygen in the water, killing
lobsters and other aquatic life.
Fish kills have happened along Maine's coast several times in
recent years, ...