Because why would you let a little thing like thousands of rotting shad corpses ruin your day of fun in the sun? The cause of the die-off is unknown, but low oxygen levels are suspected. And please note the droll AP captions that accompany the photos.
This is not a gutted mackerel. It’s just a very realistic approximation of a gutted mackerel. And it holds pencils, if you want to spend $75 on it.
Thousands of gizzard shad have been turning up dead along the Chicago lakefront recently. Michigan Program biologist Dan Makauskas speculated that the young shad may not have built up enough reserves to survive the cold, but says the die-off is abnormal. Basically, this is just another sign that the world is ending. View List ›
They drank too much on New Year’s Eve.
Birds falling from the sky, dead fish washing ashore, and now the cows are acting strange, too. View Image ›
Pescageddon!
Here’s a run down of what’s happened so far: 500 dead blackbirds in Louisiana, 100,000 dead fish in Arkansas, 5,000 dead birds in Arkansas, and Snooki no longer wants to be called Snooki. It’s all about to end. Watch Video ›
100,000 drum fish died suddenly roughly 100 miles west of the massive bird die-off in Beebe, Arkansas. Basically, the gates of hell are opening up in Beebe, Arkansas. Watch Video ›
These fish simply will not die. Watch Video ›
