20哩魚類死亡：10萬條死魚在阿肯色河
西元2011年01月02日
Massive fish kill blankets Arkansas River - CNN.com.mp4
大量魚類死亡鋪滿阿肯色河 -CNN.com.mp4
西元2011年01月03日
More Dead Birds Found In Kentucky AND La. Identical To Birds in Arkansas - Media Downplays Find
更多的死鳥發現在肯塔基州和路易斯安那州，相同在阿肯色州的鳥類 - 媒體淡化
西元2011年01月03日
死魚覆蓋阿肯色河20哩
Dead fish cover 20-miles of Arkansas River
Katherina- Marie Yancy
1 day ago
Arkansas Game & Fish is trying to figure out why 100,000 fish in Northwest Arkansas turned up dead. They were found along a 20-mile stretch between the Ozark Dam and Highway 109 Bridge in Franklin County.
The 20-mile stretch along the Arkansas River where an estimated 100,000 drum fish were found washed ashore and floating looks much different now.
Keith Stephens with Game and Fish explains, "We got a call last week from a tug boat operator that found the fish out on the river along the bank, in the river channel and we immediately dispatched somebody to the area to take a look."
Investigators from local and state agencies took samples from the affected area. Stephens says fish kills occur every year, but the magnitude of this one is unusual, and disease could be the cause.
A pollutant would have affected cross species. Stephens says, "Ninety-nine percent of them were Drum, which is a bottom feeder. It's not a game fish in Arkansas."
Some fish collected were alive and visibly sick. They have been taken to the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff for testing.
The affected area was never closed and fishing is encouraged. "Right now it's fine to fish. If you go out there you can still fish for bass and crappie, catfish, it will be fine. Obviously don't' eat the dead fish."
As for clean up, nature is taking its course. "We'll have raccoon and birds and things like that will take care of it so there is really no clean up, it's really too big. It's contained along the river channel."
Monday, officials expect to have an estimate of how many fish died. They will release the test results as soon as they get them.
http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=136401&catid=2
美5000鳥10萬魚離奇死亡 阿肯色州新年怪象
(明報)2011年1月4日 星期二 05:05
【明報專訊】美國 阿肯色州甫踏入新年，便出現既像希治閣電影故事，又似《聖經 》十災情節的怪象，數以千計翱翔天際的黑鳥竟神秘墜地死亡，數萬計河裏游魚亦離奇反肚暴斃，引起議論。官方相信兩件事並無關連，但已著手「驗屍」，望能盡快平息大眾疑慮。
阿肯色州西北部鄰近歐扎克斯（Ozark）的32哩長阿肯色河流域，上周四晚起有大量石首魚（drum fish）無故死亡，迄周六估計達10萬條。阿肯色州漁獵委員會的斯蒂芬斯（Keith Stephens）表示死亡魚量異常多，懷疑涉及某種疾病，已收集樣本化驗探其死因。他說﹕「如果是污染所致，應該所有魚類均受影響，而不會只是石首魚。」
死魚屬同一品種 料非污染造成
無獨有偶，在發現死魚地點以東約200公里的比比（Beebe）鎮發生了黑鳥（blackbird）暴斃怪事。自除夕晚，當地方圓逾1.5公里範圍便開始有黑鳥跌落街頭、房頂等地，情况持續至周六，雀屍累計達4000至5000隻。
阿肯色州漁獵委員會在該區以外乃至當地黑鳥叢林棲地，並無發現死鳥，故相信鳥亡事件無關疾病或落毒。有紅色翅膀的黑鳥，又稱烏鶇。鳥類學家羅韋（Karen Rowe）指出，鳥兒遇雷擊或高空冰雹，會出現這類集體死亡情况。此外，一股強烈風暴系統上周前經過該州，也可能導致這次怪事。
死鳥有表面創傷 或涉傷害驚嚇
羅韋說﹕「無論這些鳥兒遇到了什麼，都顯然發生得極快。一定是有些事令這群鳥夜裏飛離棲息的樹木，然後促使牠們死亡，跌落地上。」他不排除是新年狂歡者發射的煙花，直接傷害或驚嚇鳥群肇事。初步檢查顯示，有些死鳥有表面創傷，但未能確定是墜地撞擊力還是別的原因造成。
死鳥已分別送交該州禽畜委員會及國家野生動物健康中心的實驗室檢驗，預料稍後會有報告。地方政府另聘美國環境服務署工作人員穿著保護衣物，逐家逐戶收集園庭、屋頂的鳥屍，密封處理。
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