"The Arkansas town of Beebe witnessed an extraordinary sight on New Years Eve as thousands of birds dropped from the sky dead. Now just 125 miles from that strange occurrence 100,000 fish have been found dead in the Arkansas River.
A tugboat captain first noticed the fish on Thursday and now wildlife officials are trying to ascertain what killed the fish.
"The fish kill only affected one species of fish," said Keith Stephens of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. "If it was from a pollutant, it would have affected all of the fish, not just drum fish."
Officials are also trying to find out what killed flocks of blackbirds just before midnight on New Year’s Eve.
Some biologists believe fireworks or the weather may have caused stress-related death for the birds and don’t believe the fish kill is linked to the mass bird death.
The number of birds killed was initially reported at 1,000, but has since been updated to 5,000."
i can see the fireworks thing maybe causing that to the birds but the dead fish are strange....