VILLAS — Countless tiny fish, likely menhaden, are washing up along the Delaware Bay beaches here and north to Middle Township on Wed., Aug. 11 .
In this community, the fish kill runs the entire length of the beachfront, Miami to Shadeland avenues.
A reader, Linda Crane, in Pierce’s Point (Middle Township), reported and sent photographs of a similar occurrence in that bay front community.
“The Delaware (Bay) shoreline is covered with dead peanut bunker as far north and south as we can see! I have never seen this in the five years we've been here what's going on?” Crane asked.
The water temperature was in the high 70s, and the sir temperature on Tue., Aug. 10 was in the 90s, which may be contributing factors into the fish kill.
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