Fish Kills

Some articles on fish kills, fish, fish kill:

Fish Kill - Causes - Algae Blooms and Red Tides
... A few species of algae produce toxins, but most fish kills due to algae bloom are a result of decreased oxygen levels ... When the algae die, decomposition uses oxygen in the water that would be available to fish ... A fish kill in a lake in Estonia in 2002 was attributed to a combination of algae bloom and high temperatures ...
Fish Kill - Causes
... Fish kills may result from a variety of causes ... Of known causes, fish kills are most frequently caused by pollution from agricultural runoff or biotoxins ... ecological hypoxia (oxygen depletion)is one of the most common natural causes of fish kills ...
Fish Kill - Causes - Toxins
... See also Fish toxins, Cyanide fishing, and Marine pollution#Toxins Agricultural runoff, sewage, surface runoff, chemical spills, hazardous waste spills ... Some notable fish kills in Louisiana in the 1950s were due to a specific pesticide called endrin ... Aluminium compound can cause complete fish kills, sometimes associated with autumn turn-over of lakes leading to complex chemical interactions between pH, calcium ions and complex polymeric salts of Aluminium ...

Famous quotes containing the words kills and/or fish:

    “Politicians—power itself—are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives.... One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abjectness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably kills them but they get their revenge by passing onto others the corpse of power.”
    —Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929)

    “I want everybody to come and have some fish and chips with King Gypo.”
    —Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)