Thousands of dead fish

[Jumptrout51]

Fished out of Econfina today in the NFGFC tournament.
Black coffee colored water everywhere.
We fished up to 6 miles out.
Floating dead fish everywhere and stinks really bad.
The Bass Boys and I boated 4 trout at 14 inches.
Our best catch of the day was a nice sized pink mouth grunt.
Yep we were fishing deep.
Not a bite of any sort inside of 8 feet.

[Sea Dawg]

as I had reported just yesterday yall wasteing your time coming to Econfina its sucking at this time

[culrich]

Do you know what it is from? What kind of fish?

[robbankston]

Those grunts were all over Ock Shoal today. Most were small but prob be good for a fish fry.

[MuleTrainGA]

No word on the cause yet, but the fish were toadfish, flounder, and other small baitfish. Has all the signs of a D.O. drop but I'll wait for the experts to say...

[Jumptrout51]

I heard that SeaDawg took a dump in the Econfina River and caused the catastrophe.

[leonreno]

Is low salinity a possibility with all the rain?

[Jhults11]

Sometimes summertime high temps reduce DO levels to 1.00 MG/L or less, which is lethal to most inhabitants but this usually occurs in shallow water. As Ga mule train stated we should wait to see what the experts say...

[redbelly7]

What is DO?

[Harmsway]

What is DO?

DO (D.O.) = Dissolved Oxygen.

Oxygen's ability to dissolve in water decreases as the water temperature increases, thus it is normal for DO levels to be lower during the summer when temperatures are highest.

Bacteria, fungi, and other decomposer organisms reduce DO levels in estuaries because they consume oxygen while breaking down organic matter.

Larger-than-normal amounts of organic matter enters the estuary when larger-than-normal rainfall washes in organic compounds (like tannic acid, the brown color) and nutrients (typically from agricultural runoff or sewage), which leads to hypoxic (very low oxygen) conditions that kill aquatic animals.

[fishinfool]

Possible by catch from shrimpers, etc..?