100,000 dead fish surface in Lake in Nevada

Denver Post- SPARKS, Nev.—State wildlife officials are trying to figure out why all the fish have died in a northern Nevada marina where the stocked fishery has flourished since the man-made lake was created nearly 15 years ago.

As many as 100,000 trout, bass and catfish have died over the past month in the Sparks Marina along U.S. Interstate 80 east of Reno, apparently the result of a dramatic, unexplained drop in dissolved oxygen levels, Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Chris Healy said Wednesday.

Scientists say a bitter cold-snap could have caused oxygen-poor waters to rise from the old rock quarry's bottom to the surface, but they don't understand what sparked the massive die-off.

Fish biologists confirmed low oxygen levels caused the death of an estimated 3,000 fish in one corner of the lake in mid-December but Healy said they thought at the time the event was localized and of limited impact. Since then, they've been unable to detect any live fish in the 77-acre lake. Numerous dead fish have been removed from the lake's shoreline and Healy said it's likely the rest sank to the bottom.

"The 100,000 dead fish figure is something that is probably a pretty conservative guess," said Healy, who estimates they've stocked close to 1 million adult fish in the lake since they started in 1998.

So I'm an educated white boy, graduated with mechanical engineering, working as an electrical engineer. I've learned why these massive amount of fish die all at once and all of that garbage. So you'd assume I'd be a bit more tolerant/ understanding of the plight here....fuck no. I can tell you one thing for sure, the town of Sparks Nevada must fucking STINK. I mean next-day beer farts mixed with mayonnaise thats been sitting in the sun bad. Fish smell is downright offensive when its on ice and properly refridgerated. I couldn't begin to fathom the stink of 100,000 fish baking in the Nevada sun. I'm getting nauseous sitting here thinking about it. 

Amazing how different this is taken around the world. Guarantee you there are a bunch of pain in the ass environmentalists who legit probably cry over this 'epic loss of life.' Meanwhile in like Thailand/Vietnam area, a fisherman discovering this probably came in his pants so hard he fell over. Diff'rent strokes I suppose.