The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency released new information regarding its ongoing efforts to determine what caused a massive fish kill in Duluth’s Tischer Creek in August. MPCA Communications Specialist Beverly Godfrey says the city of Duluth drained an estimated 1.7 million gallons of chloraminated water into the creek from the Woodland Reservoir over a 15-hour
State environmental officials say improper chemical treatment of algae blooms caused a fish kill in northeastern Pennsylvania. The Times-Tribune reports about 10,000 fish died in Lake Ariel in Wayne County last summer. According to the citation, the association hired a New Jersey company to kill algae blooms in July. Officials say the firm did not
A fish kill at Diamond Lake affected about 100 fish of several different species leading to an by the Michigan DNR Fisheries and the Department of Environment and Great Lakes and Energy (EAGLE), formerly known as Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). Dead fish showed up two days after the lake had been treated with chemicals
Michigan anglers are fed up with the way some area lake associations have amped up their aquatic plant treatments in recent years. The annual dump of herbicides has destroyed a lot of fish habitat in recent years. It doesn’t matter whether you fish for panfish, bass, pike or walleye; excessive treatments have negative effects. Plants
An outbreak of toxic algae has killed almost all fish at Lake Mission Viejo, a world-class bass fishery in California. An estimated 10,000-plus bass, catfish, sunfish and blue gill have died in the past few months at the man-made recreational lake, said Kevin Frabotta, general manager of the Lake Mission Viejo Association, the homeowners association