Paddlefish mysteriously die off at Oklahoma lake
June 7, 2018
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation has investigated another fish kill below a dam after an angler reported he saw dozens of dead paddlefish at a lake outside Tulsa.
The Monday sighting at Fort Gibson Lake came after a fish kill last Friday below Tulsa's low-water Zink Dam, and another two weeks prior when water wasn't running at the Keystone Dam, the Tulsa World reported .
Angler pressure, unseasonably hot weather and lack of water flowing below the dam during such weather may have contributed to the deaths, according to biologists. But the scientists said the...
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