'We're all kind of shocked': Massive fish die-off on the Cowichan River has many concerned
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There is a mystery unfolding on the Cowichan River, discovered by two snorkelers last week near Skutz Falls.
There is a mystery unfolding on the Cowichan River, discovered by two snorkelers last week near Skutz Falls.
“They noticed silver spots all over the bottom of the river,” said Parker Jefferson with he Cowichan Stewardship Roundtable.
Diving to the bottom, the pair discovered that those silver spots were actually a massive fish die-off.
“Hundreds, perhaps thousands of baby trout and salmon,” said Jefferson. “Some of them up to two years old.”
Jefferson says the die-off only happened along a small stretch of the river, and as to why it happened, that’s still unknown.
“We have checked the temperature and we have checked the dissolved oxygen in the river and they are both good,” said Jefferson.
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