Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Louisiana Paper Mill Spill Causes Massive Fish Kill

Louisiana Paper Mill Spill Causes Massive Fish Kill
http://planetark.org/enviro-news/item/63018

"A rotten stench hung over a 60-mile stretch of Louisiana's Pearl River as boats trawled through thick layers of hundreds of thousands of dead fish, and sweating workers bent to scoop the carcasses from the water.

The fish, including federally protected Gulf sturgeon as well as catfish and flounder, died after a paper mill in Bogalusa, Louisiana, released a high concentration of waste material into the river on August 9."

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