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DEQ: Dead fish in Biloxi came from broken pogey net
Posted:<SCRIPT type=text/javascript orgFontSize="9px"> wnRenderDate('Tuesday, August 3, 2010 7:08 PM EST', '', true);</SCRIPT> Aug 03, 2010 6:08 PM CDT <NOSCRIPT orgFontSize="10px"></NOSCRIPT><!--END wnDate-->Updated:<SCRIPT type=text/javascript orgFontSize="9px"> wnRenderDate('Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:23 PM EST', '', true);</SCRIPT> Aug 03, 2010 9:23 PM CDT
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - If you saw tens of thousands of dead fish floating in Biloxi waters Tuesday, the deaths are not related to the oil spill.
Phone calls began coming into WLOX Tuesday afternoon from people who'd been at Beau Rivage reporting hundreds of dead fish floating in the water and washing up along the boom south of the casino resort. Witnesses said the smell was terrible.
Officials from the Department of Environmental Quality said a company that catches the small, silver Menhaden, or pogey fish, lost its catch when a net was torn.
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Full article:
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12920344
Posted:<SCRIPT type=text/javascript orgFontSize="9px"> wnRenderDate('Tuesday, August 3, 2010 7:08 PM EST', '', true);</SCRIPT> Aug 03, 2010 6:08 PM CDT <NOSCRIPT orgFontSize="10px"></NOSCRIPT><!--END wnDate-->Updated:<SCRIPT type=text/javascript orgFontSize="9px"> wnRenderDate('Tuesday, August 3, 2010 10:23 PM EST', '', true);</SCRIPT> Aug 03, 2010 9:23 PM CDT
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) - If you saw tens of thousands of dead fish floating in Biloxi waters Tuesday, the deaths are not related to the oil spill.
Phone calls began coming into WLOX Tuesday afternoon from people who'd been at Beau Rivage reporting hundreds of dead fish floating in the water and washing up along the boom south of the casino resort. Witnesses said the smell was terrible.
Officials from the Department of Environmental Quality said a company that catches the small, silver Menhaden, or pogey fish, lost its catch when a net was torn.
...
Full article:
http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12920344