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Massive Fish Kill Not BP's Fault

P. J. Hahn, Plaquemines Parish Coastal Zone Management

(Sept. 16) -- BP is behind the worst accidental oil spill in history, and is thus responsible for the deaths of much affected animal life in the Gulf of Mexico. But the latest gruesome fish kill? Don't count on it. Louisiana's Department of Wildlife and Fisheries determined that rising temperatures and low tide caused the...

Massive Fish Kill Hits Mississippi River Near Oil Spill [VIDEO]

(Sept. 14) -- The river looked like a road paved with dead fish. Local residents spotted hundreds of thousands of dead fish floating atop the Mississippi River late Friday evening near Bayou Chaland in Plaquemines Parish, La., just north of the Gulf of Mexico, a spot that has been affected by the BP oil spill, the Times...

Report: Ocean 'Dead Zones' Increasing in US

(Sept. 6) -- The nation's waterways are fast becoming a wasteland. Released Friday, a joint report by the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Geological Survey and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science finds that the number of so-called "dead zones" in U.S. waters is 30 times...