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League City’s South Shore Harbour Marina, the Kemah Boardwalk area and part of Dickinson Bayou, were covered with thousands of dead fish this weekend.

Early Saturday morning South Shore Harbour residents in League City, TX, noticed dead shad, carp, flounder and crabs in their marina waters.

Locals started reporting to Texas Parks and Wildlife, observing an estimated ten thousand Gulf menhaden, commonly known as shad, floating in the South Shore Harbour Marina, Kemah-Galveston Bay area and in Dickinson Bayou.

According to the Galveston Daily News, out of Galveston Texas, Texas Parks and Wildlife Marine Biologist, William Denton, said that fish die because of a lack of oxygen, caused by an overabundance of algae, which produce oxygen when it’s sunny. Clouds came following Saturday’s long-awaited rains, in the drought-stricken area, shutting down the algae and the shad quickly became oxygen-starved.

Some bodies of water, like Dickinson Bayou have naturally low levels of dissolved oxygen and the six- month-long heat wave worsened the conditions, because, warm water holds less oxygen than cold.

Massive fish kills have been occurring in Galveston Bay since May. South Shore (of Clear Lake) Harbour , which empties in Clear Lake, then Galveston Bay, started experiencing massive fish deaths the weekend of July 15th.

The U.S.Fish and Wildlife website describes the shad, the Gulf menhaden, as a species that is susceptible to massive deaths from pollution and disease, because they do not react like other fish to lower oxygen levels and swim away, and move in much larger groups than other fish.

Shad are important commercially and ecologically as food for other fish when they are young.

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Dead fish are washing up on the shores of Owasco and Cayuga lakes in unusually high numbers

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Fishermen reeling in dead fish at Veterans Lake

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Dead fish wash ashore on Pensacola Beach

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An estimated 100,000 dead Atlantic menhaden washed ashore....

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....it was reported that there were 4,000 blackbrids drop dead from the sky. And with the following reports there were 100,000 fish found dead in the Arkansas River which is 125 miles away from the dead birds incident.

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Millions of dead fish in Redondo’s King Harbor

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