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Dead Fish Are Washing Up On Long Branch River Banks: Report
Residents have complained to local and state officials about the smell coming from the schools of dead bunker fish washing up.
According to News 12, residents are complaining of the stench that is coming from schools of Atlantic menhaden or bunker, that are washing up on the muddy banks of the Manhasset and Branchport Creeks, both of which are tributaries of the Shrewsbury River.
Nightmarish conditions for folks along the navesink and Shrewsbury rivers as the ongoing fish kill now moves into the warm months. Story this morning on @News12NJ pic.twitter.com/hGT5OwrnLH
— Jim Murdoch News12NJ (@ReporterJim) May 3, 2021
Read more at News 12.
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