Fish Kill Due To Heat

[Ray]

Reports of a fish kill along the Calcasieu Ship Channel last week were investigated by the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, Department of Environmental Quality, and the Environmental Protection Agency. The fish were determined to have died from low oxygen conditions brought on by the intense heat the area has been experiencing over the past few weeks. Temperatures in the upper 90s and a lack of rain have plagued the parish, but Wednesday brought welcome relief in the form of heavy rain over most of the coastal area.
Southwest Louisiana is still at least 11 inches below average rainfall for the year.

["W"]

I'm glad they got that info out before it gets blamed somewhere else!!

[longcast]

Wow

[BIGJ]

Could be true. The heat has been brutal.

[Bluechip]

Originally Posted by "W"

I'm glad they got that info out before it gets blamed somewhere else!!

I think it was the oil....

["W"]

I was in and out of the ship channel from thurs to mon..did not see any dead fish...but was not looking...I wonder if that's more up north?

[Choupique]

record rainfall in the fall/winter, record lack of rainfall in the spring/summer...

[Bluechip]

I don't know where it was at either....this is the first I have heard of a fish kill...

[Country Boy]

about 2 weeks ago the water temp. was 97 around the 210 bridge near the ship channel.

[speck-chaser]

well,we gonna catch up on some of that rain this week and next

[Gottogo49]

I would like to see the results of the toxicology tests with coke fines on fathead minnows. Those fathead babies die easier than shrimp but they are the standard for the tests. Some of the tests are invalid because the control group dies before the test group.
The rain will cool things down a little but many fish kills occur after a rain because the rain washes out the oxygen depleted stagnant water from the marshes.

[CajunSteelsetter]

Rain has been scarce lately, but drought an fish kills aint what worries me. We really need about two or three years of slightly above average rainfall to fill up the aquifers. Their getting lower all the time.