First birds, now 100k fish over 20m miles. What the heck is going on in Arkansas

[Adul]

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136401&catid=2

Arkansas Game & Fish is trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in Northwest Arkansas turned up dead. They were found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County.

The 20-mile stretch along the Arkansas River where an estimated 100,000 drum fish were found washed ashore and floating looks much different now. Keith Stephens with Game and Fish explains, "We got a call last week from a tug boat operator that found the fish out on the river along the bank, in the river channel and we immediately dispatched somebody to the area to take a look."
Investigators from local and state agencies took samples from the affected area. Stephens says fish kills occur every year, but the magnitude of this one is unusual, and disease could be the cause.


Seriously what kind of crap was dumped there?

 

[thepd7]

http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136401&catid=2

Arkansas Game & Fish is trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in Northwest Arkansas turned up dead. They were found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County.

The 20-mile stretch along the Arkansas River where an estimated 100,000 drum fish were found washed ashore and floating looks much different now. Keith Stephens with Game and Fish explains, "We got a call last week from a tug boat operator that found the fish out on the river along the bank, in the river channel and we immediately dispatched somebody to the area to take a look."
Investigators from local and state agencies took samples from the affected area. Stephens says fish kills occur every year, but the magnitude of this one is unusual, and disease could be the cause.


Seriously what kind of crap was dumped there?

Did you read your own article?

A pollutant would have affected cross species. Stephens says, "Ninety-nine percent of them were Drum, which is a bottom feeder. It's not a game fish in Arkansas."

 

[slightlyhuman]

not sure, not too far from that area..

 

[SSSnail]

They probably joined the same cult.

 

[Ichinisan]

As I said in the thread about the dead birds, I think this is geological activity releasing toxic gas of some kind.

Herds of buffalo are occasionally found dead in Yellowstone due to toxic gases. I also recall a National Geographic special that confirmed some interesting cases somewhere in Africa. An entire valley would fill up with CO2 and asphyxiate hundreds of people. This happened on more than one occasion. They found out that landslides disturbed water in the deepest parts of the lakes, causing massive quantities of dissolved CO2 to be released suddenly (like shaking a soda).

 

[magomago]

i guess bacteria are going to have a field day

 

[Soccerman06]

I said this in the bird thread and ill say it here, UFOs man UFOs!!!!!!!!

 

[Powermoloch]

omg guys the end of times iz comings !















jk

 

[dmcowen674]

I used to live near the area.

There are many Companies that supply Walmart there.

Would not be surprised if it was a massive dumping over the Holiday thinking they would not get caught.

 

[Kroze]

The terrorist has won.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

dose arkansas has muslim?

 

[Lonyo]

Sounds like they had a Flash Forward but it was in the night so no one noticed.

 

[JTsyo]

Like the birds, I think this is geological activity releasing toxic gas of some kind.

Wouldn't that result in most life in river dying and not just this particular fish? Unless I guess it was something that only affected them.

 

[Cuda1447]

It's Russia!

 

[lxskllr]

Did you read your own article?

That was an incorrect conclusion. While I doubt it was pollution, something dumped that stayed close to the bottom would affect bottom feeders more than other fish.

 

[RelaxTheMind]

maybe the mayan calendar was a year off.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

omg guys the end of times iz comings !

just a year away from 2012

 

[Kommander_Kink]

Like the birds, I think this is geological activity releasing toxic gas of some kind.

Yeah okay so why are people not dying?

 

[chalmers]

So I guess the fish can't haz cheeseburger?

 

[pontifex]

secret government weapons testing.

 

[CZroe]

Any new word on what caused it? Radio blamed electrical storm on the birds just before I read about the fish. They may be unrelated.

Yeah okay so why are people not dying?

Like has been said elsewhere, birds are more sensitive to certain things and it stands to reason that some other species, like these fish, are too. Miners used birds to tell them when to GTFO of a mine slowly filling with deadly and/or explosive gasses... the canary would croak and it was early-warning, not just a chance to say "OMG we're screwed!" if it were some geologic activity releasing gas, it would likely be getting LESS deadly as it dispersed and would not pose an increasing threat to people if it only ever got to the point to kill certain birds.

 

[Kadarin]

Didn't that movie The Core start out like this?

 

[CZroe]

Didn't that movie The Core start out like this?

They didn't drop dead. They flew into buildings and stuff because the magnetic field of the Earth was going haywire, which is stupid because they don't blindly run into new crap when following their normal migration paths. It guides them. It doesn't steer them.

 

[spidey07]

Like the birds, I think this is geological activity releasing toxic gas of some kind.

That's my take as well. It's not all that unusual for such an event.

 

[Ichinisan]

Wouldn't that result in most life in river dying and not just this particular fish? Unless I guess it was something that only affected them.

They're specifically bottom-feeders.

...so I think the water with dissolved CO2 is heavier than water with dissolved oxygen, so displacement starts at the bottom.