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Guam: Large Fish Kill Discovered At Pago Bay, ‘The First Time It’s Ever Been Noticed … To Have A Fish Kill Like This’


By Clynt Ridgell, Pacific News Center -“Guam – Last week dead fish were found mysteriously washing up along the shores of Pago bay. Today PNC went to Pago Bay to investigate the possible cause of this unusual phenomenon.

On Thursday of last week a student at the University of Guam’s marine lab noticed a lot of dead fish along the short in Pago bay. He took pictures of the fish and forwarded them to UOG marine lab professor Dr. Jason Biggs. ‘Well one of the things that set up a red flag for me is that this is the first time that it’s ever been noticed for Pago bay to have a fish kill like this,’ said Dr. Biggs.

Department of agriculture fisheries biologist Brent Tibbats also examined the photos. He says they appear to be shallow water fish that live in the reef flats and sea grass. Based on the photos, which show that many of the fish died with open mouths, Tibbats believes that natural causes are the most likely culprit…

However, as Dr. Biggs has pointed out this is the first time that they’ve seen this at Pago bay. ‘Over the past we’ve noticed areas where it happens commonly actually are Tumon bay is one and down along the southeast coast kind of from Ipan beach park down to first beach those areas something about them seems to be where fish kills repeatedly during these low tides during the middle of the day,’ said Tibbats.

Nevertheless Dr. Biggs is concerned that something else maybe the cause of this strange event.” Read more.

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