MD, USA: 60,000 to 100,000 fish of several species dead in Chesapeake Bay area

[Emily]

Awful scene; a resident says at the end of the article that crabs are crawling out of the water and fish are gulping at the air of surface to try to get oxygen.

Fish kills grow in algae-tainted waters
Death toll on Arundel creeks raised tenfold; more seen in Dundalk waters

By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun

8:59 p.m. EDT, May 23, 2012

Something's rotten on the Baltimore area waterfront. Fish are washing ashore by the thousands in a mass die-off that officials say appears to be caused by a weather-driven worsening of the pollution that chronically plagues the Chesapeake Bay....