Dead Fish

Post by **Relic** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 4:57 pm

A heads up to all. Somthing is happening to/on/in the Ottawa thats killing fish. Just catfish that I have seen so far but lots of em. Counted thirty or fourty floaters last night alone. Caught a half dead one aswell. Pretty sick looking fungus or something growing all over them.

Ministry was up on the weekend collection fish for testing. Hope they get to the bottom of this as fast as they possibly can. If anyone gets any more info on this please let us know. I will do the same.

Jonathan

Post by **joco** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:02 pm

hi relic.......

thanks for this news........

but this is bad news,,,,,,,

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i hope its only an hot weater thing.....

not somthing major that could kill a lot off species..........

man my cats.............

joco

Post by **Rider23** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:28 pm

I noticed a lot of dead fish last week below the dam. Myself and Vince counted about 20

Could have been the run off after the heavy rain maybe

Post by **Pints** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:35 pm

It was on CJOH news this evening, the ministry is looking into it. I didn't catch all the report so I'm not sure what they had say about it. I thought I heard one comment about a warm weather die off. Will be interesting to see what comes of it.

Post by **Cancatchbass** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:31 pm

Hi guys:

Just for the sake of clarity- these are catfish you're talking about and not bullheads?

Tom

Post by **Pints** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 7:04 pm

Yes, they are channel cats.

Post by **jiggy2006** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:55 pm

Was fishing at Arnprior yesterday, seen 3 dead catfish floating around.. wasnt sure why!? so there seems to be a problem!

Post by **ady** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 5:27 am

waterfront property below the dam is starting to smell - this is really bad. Even saw one on the headpond. Rumours are including ecoli and high water temps.

Post by **Gord** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:16 am

This is disturbing.

There's an article in today's Ottawa Citizen on it......in the City section. Suspicions are that this may not be a natural occurrance.

Post by **MuskieStalker1** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:41 am

i have seen one dead cat this summer so far , But the truth i see a few evey summer always rotting and this could be just a normal occurance on the Mad . The water temps have stablized with the cooler nights . I hope this will help the situation .I will put a call into the MNR to see if they have any new information this afternoon .
Kert Lavigne
Muskie Stalker

Post by **matcole** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:01 am

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/new ... 2b&k=34376

Here is the article for it! Better keep an eye out Joco

Post by **spinner** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:11 am

here is the article

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/new ... 2b&k=34376

Post by **Flipper** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:33 am

I'm waterfront a few kilometres downstream from Ady and no dead fish here.
The water level has dropped dramatically as it was very high from the heavy rains a couple of weeks back. The only other unusual thing is that expanses of weeds on the Quebec side have died off which happened this time last year too for some reason.

Post by **CCLad** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:21 pm

I wonder if this is not related to the same virus or bacteria that was responable for the kill in the ST Larry and Bay of Quinte. There is also a die off occuring in Lake Erie as well.

Post by **Kpin** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 6:04 pm

Just caught the story on the news...disturbing.

Fish-Hawk.Net

Dead Fish

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i seen dead catfish at arnprior too

Die off