Dead Bunker

[finchaser]

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01/17/16566091-tens-of-thousands-of-dead-fish-wash-ashore-on-south-carolina-beach?lite

[storminsteve]

Wow lots o smells. Thanks for posting finchaser.

[BassBuddah]

“On Friday we had a new moon (which caused) real high high tides and real low low tides,” Belltold The Sun News (http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/2013/01/16/3277485/answers-sought-in-fish-kill-near.html). “Probably what happened was a school (of menhaden) got in an area of water on a high tide, in a hole or depression, and at low tide they were trapped and depleted the oxygen in the water. Then, all the fish would suffocate. Then, when the tide came back in, it washed the dead fish out and they washed up on the beach.”
"When it's one species like that, that's usually indicative of a low dissolved oxygen situation because they tend to be more fragile," added Dan Hitchcock, an assistant professor at the Baruch Institute of Coastal Ecology and Forest Science at Clemson University in Georgetown, S.C.
Fanning said the city has no plans to clean up the fish and will let the seagulls and the tide clear the sand. "



Low oxygen. Yup, bunker are not the smartest fish in the barrel.

[surfstix1963]

No they are not they are attracted to crappy water because they feed on that junk in the water.

[jigfreak]

^^ah, someone who knows baitfish.:thumbsup:
Surfstix is right, where would we be without these bunker. They filter feed and make our water cleaner. Fish kills like this happen many times a season. Look at what happened earlier this year in the Delaware bay, thousands of dead bunker.