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A SECOND mysterious disaster killed 100,000 fish on the day 5,000 birds dropped dead from the sky in the same US state, it was revealed yesterday.
Shoals of drum fish corpses littered a 20-mile stretch of the Arkansas River and washed up near Ozark city.
A tugboat operator found them on New Year’s Eve at the same time that flocks of blackbirds started smashing into the ground at the Arkansas town of Beebe, 125 miles away.
The distressing twin catastrophes are not thought to be connected, said wildlife experts. They collected some of the dead or dying fish from the riverbank and were last night investigating the tragedy, which was not made public till yesterday.
Arkansas Game and Fish Commission spokesman Keith Stephens said mass “kills” of fish occur every year but he revealed that the magnitude of the latest one was unusual.
“This kill only affected one species,” he said. “If it had been caused by a pollutant it would have affected all kinds, not just drum fish.”
