MidnightWatcher – Prophecy in Motion

By Judie Steeves, Kelowna Capital News – “An investigation is going on into two fish kills in Okanagan Lake, but it’s not yet known whether they are related or not.

Hundreds of dead carp and Northern pike minnows were discovered Monday in and around Rotary Marsh in Kelowna’s downtown north end, where Brandt Creek flushes into Okanagan Lake.

Conservation officer Ed Seitz was at the scene Monday afternoon and said he couldn’t see any evidence of a chemical or fuel spill, but he removed some of the carcasses to have some laboratory tests done on them.

All the fish he saw were coarse fish rather than game fish, and he said it appeared they died within the past day or two.

City of Kelowna staff have also taken water samples both in Rotary Marsh—a re-constructed wetland that is now a city park—and at several spots upstream in Brandt Creek, but there were no results by the Capital News deadline, according to Todd Cashin, Environment and Land Use manager with the city.

Cashin had visited the site earlier in the day and said there didn’t appear to be different age classes, but he couldn’t speculate what might have caused the deaths.” Read more.