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State officials on Monday were investigating why 80,000 to
100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River last
week.
"The fish deaths will take about a month" to determine a cause, Keith
Stephens, a spokesman for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, told
msnbc.com.
Stephens also provided the estimate of 80,000 to 100,000 dead fish.
The
fish were found Thursday by a tugboat operator along a 20-mile stretch
of the Arkansas River near the city of Ozark The mass kill occurred just
one day before thousands of blackbirds
dropped dead from the sky in Beebe, Ark., which is 125 miles away..
Officials said 95 percent of the fish that died were drum fish —
indicating that the likely cause of death was disease as only one
species was affected.
"If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish,
not just drum fish," Stephens added Drum fish, which are bottom feeders,
are not sought by fishermen, he
added, and fishing was not banned as a precaution. "Right now it's fine
to fish,"
KTHV quoted Stephens as saying. "If you go out there you can still fish for bass and crappie, catfish, it will be fine. Obviously don't eat the dead fish." .
Fish were still floating on the same stretch of river as of Monday morning.
Stephens said that nature will be doing the cleanup. "We'll have
raccoon and birds and things like that will take care of it so there is
really no cleanup, it's really too big. It's contained along the river
channel."
David Lyons, the head of a local chapter of the Sierra Club, told
msnbc.com that he was "waiting for the results of the pathology and
toxicology tests before I make any judgments about the bird and fish
kills.
"So far, the evidence does not suggest that pollution contributed to
either the bird or fish kill," he added. "If the test results indicate
that contaminants were responsible, then local environmental groups will
likely have several questions and concerns about the two events."https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40887450/ns/us_news-environment/
Bee Symbology: The beehive is a commonly used symbol dating at least to Roman times. In medieval heraldry it was considered a symbol of industry. In modern times, it is used in Freemasonry. In masonic lectures is explained as symbol of industry and co-operation, and as cautioning against intellectual laziness, warning that "he that will so demean himself as not to be endeavoring to add to the common stock of knowledge and understanding, may be deemed a drone in the hive of nature, a useless member of society, and unworthy of our protection as Masons." The beehive is also used with similar meaning by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons.
About the Bebee, Arkansas bird and fish unexplained die-off -- I asked about it on my Facebook Page and got a mixed reaction from friends - some physical - some metaphysical. The answer is physical not a UFO. Aliens have better things to do. Watch it on YouTube. Interesting that in light of prophecies hitting now, many people expressed that it was the end of the world.
Birds fall from sky again, this time in Louisiana PhysOrg - January 4, 2011
The second unexplained mass bird death within a week has been discovered in the southern United States, this time in the state of Louisiana, officials said Tuesday.
Apocalypse now? Mystery bird deaths hit Louisiana Guardian - January 4, 2011
Hundreds of blackbirds fall from sky over Louisiana, days after similar phenomenon in neighboring Arkansas. about 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings had been found dead in Louisiana. Their tiny corpses littered a short stretch of highway near the city of Labarre after apparently falling dead from the sky. That would be spooky enough. But the Louisiana bird die-off came just a few days after up to 5,000 blackbirds fell to earth in neighboring Arkansas in the small town of Beebe. Residents there had reported stumbling upon the bodies littering the ground and even being hit by them as they fell. In even more grim news, anglers and other members of the public reported that more than 80,000 drum fish had suddenly died in the state's Arkansas river, about 100 miles west of Beebe. The silvery bodies of the fish floated in the river and washed up on its sides having died at roughly the same time. In another incident, hundreds of miles away on the Maryland coast of Chesapeake Bay, tens of thousands of dead fish also washed up on the shore.