Comment from: djkimmel

By editor on Jan 5, 2011 | In Environment, Species related
From Aol News SURGE DESK
Yelena Shuster Contributor
Maybe it's time to start storing those emergency food rations.
Hundreds of thousands of small fish have died in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay. This marks the fourth reported incident of mass wildlife death in the past week -- but at least this one has a simple explanation.
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Maybe news media is just reporting it more right now, but still startling with thousands of bird dying in Arkansas, then repeated with 500 dead birds in Louisiana. Add in the 100,000 or more drum dying in the Arkansas River and locally a possible large die off in the hot ponds in Michigan off Lake Erie and it seems like more is going on that normal.