Large Fish Kill Hits Maryland
Fish Kills Discovered In Grey's CreekShawn J. Soper
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08/25/2005 OCEAN CITY – A combination of naturally occurring and man-made factors resulted in a fish kill of around 1,000 young menhaden in Grey’s Creek near Hidden Harbor this week.
Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) investigators responded to the scene on Tuesday and determined the massive fish kill was the result of a variety of factors including over-enrichment and late summer algal blooms resulting in low dissolved oxygen levels in the poorly flushed canal. According to MDE spokesman Richard McIntire, the canal along Grey’s Creek was in a “severely hypoxic condition,” meaning it was extremely toxic.
“The water in the canal was very toxic and very putrid,” he said. “It was actually black in color
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