Bunker kills

Originally Posted by Arbutis

The general public can easily swallow the story of 'predatory fish chasing the bunker' into the shallow lallow shalla lallows where they die from lack of oxygen. But IF the news story read "Sometimes there's this poison that runs off the green grass lawns and kills millions of fish" well now you have a conspiratheory (just made that word up).

Just remember, if you yell Barracuda - everybody says huh? what???> But you yell Shark!> and you have a damn panic on your hands on the 4th of July.

I often wonder how many people have health issues which are never linked to bass that winter over in the Hudson, Newark Bay, Arthur Kill etc. when they're caught in the spring in Sandy Hook or along the coast during their northerly migration. Funny how often I hear people say you'd have to be crazy eating anything from that entire ecosystem but you know they're being consumed when they leave their wintering grounds. I'm sure some will say as long as you get all the red meat off the fillet they're fine, that's where toxins are stored in the body fat. Any fish swimming around in the waters off the turnpike while they have my utmost respect, don't have enough red meat to cut off to the extent I'd consume them.

Dan I'm not familiar with the location from the picture in your post. Any chance that area froze up (brackish water) during the winter and the kill happened earlier but wasn't noticed until ice out. Might explain why the gulls didn't feast on them if they weren't accessible.