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Another million fish die-off at the Salton Sea

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on July 24, 2007 at 10:00 pm

In what is apparently an annual event, there has been yet another fish die-off at the Salton Sea. This from the San Diego Union Tribune:

Millions of tilapia died in the annual summertime Salton Sea fish kill in what was described as the largest die-off ever at the giant desert lake. “Everywhere you looked, there were dead fish,” Salton Sea Authority Project Manager Dan Cain said of the weekend die-off. Fish were floating as far as the eye could see.

It was too early to estimate how many tilapia died, but the number appears to have surpassed the 3 million that died in August 2006, Cain said. Fish die-offs occur at the lake every summer because of natural biological and chemical reactions that sap oxygen from the water during July heat waves when temperatures soar near 120 degrees.

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Aah, but don’t worry … there are about 200 million tilapia in the Salton Sea, so who will miss a million or two ….

July 24, 2007 · Filed Under Salton Sea

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