This is a pond at my shop that has a canal connecting it to the sound and after a storm a shit ton of fish died. Also there was a weird oil slick on the surface, a lot of the fish where breathing at the surface like this video.



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  1. Cultural-Company282 on

    It’s very likely to be chemical runoff from the storm causing a fish kill. Maybe someone dumped used motor oil in a storm drain nearby.

    Turnover doesn’t even start until the surface water temperatures get down into the low 50s. A lot of people see stuff like algae blooms and mistake it for turnover.

  2. It’s hard to tell in this video, but that sheen looks more like the byproduct of harmless iron oxidizing bacteria than a chemical sheen to me. A clearer video of it breaking up would help confirm

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