[env-trinity] Thousands of Fish Die as Midwest Streams Heat Up

[Deirdre Des Jardins]

Thousands of Fish Die as Midwest Streams Heat Up


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LINCOLN, Neb. - Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry
summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots
to nearly 100 degrees.

 

About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed in Iowa last week as water
temperatures reached 97 degrees. Nebraska fishery officials said they've
seen thousands of dead sturgeon, catfish, carp, and other species in the
Lower Platte River, including the endangered pallid sturgeon. And biologists
in Illinois said the hot weather has killed tens of thousands of large- and
smallmouth bass and channel catfish and is threatening the population of the
greater redhorse fish, a state-endangered species.

 

 

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Read more at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48516974/ns/us_news-environment/

 

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