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cpepice
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 Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:04 pm Post subject: Dead Stripers in Old Lyme |
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| I was watching the 5pm news on NBC today and it showed pictures of dead stripers in the lower ct river. It stated that there were around 1,000 fish found. I cannot find out any other information about the issue. Has anyone heard anything about it? |
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bowhunter095
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| Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:14 pm Post subject: |
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| I made a post about this yesterday on the forum. My friend was down there and he said he saw hundreds of them floating out with the tide. Fish from 12-30 inches. |
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cpepice
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| Posted: Mon Jan 06, 2014 10:38 pm Post subject: |
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| I just saw the post thanks! I guess they are investigating the cause the picture on the news looked like there were some bigger fish mixed in as well. |
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bowhunter095
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| I wish I saw that report |
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dogfishhead
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 12:44 pm Post subject: |
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I just got off the phone with someone from the DEEP Marine Headquarters and he told me it was only about 50 - 100 fish belly up and that the cold on Saturday morning is most likely the reason that there was all these dead fish.
Also he said this happened in the Black Hall, not the main river...
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PECo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 2:47 pm Post subject: |
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| dogfishhead wrote: | I just got off the phone with someone from the DEEP Marine Headquarters and he told me it was only about 50 - 100 fish belly up and that the cold on Saturday morning is most likely the reason that there was all these dead fish.
Also he said this happened in the Black Hall, not the main river... |
Cold?!?! That makes no sense to me. The water temperature can't drop much below 32 degrees in fresh and they're fine with that.
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dogfishhead
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 3:48 pm Post subject: |
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| PECo wrote: | | dogfishhead wrote: | I just got off the phone with someone from the DEEP Marine Headquarters and he told me it was only about 50 - 100 fish belly up and that the cold on Saturday morning is most likely the reason that there was all these dead fish.
Also he said this happened in the Black Hall, not the main river... |
Cold?!?! That makes no sense to me. The water temperature can't drop much below 32 degrees in fresh and they're fine with that. |
I thought the same thing but that was the answer he gave me...
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Crest Daddy
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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is the black hall area mostly fresh? I ask because i have been told by a few that stripers do not well tolerate very cold freshwater .
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PECo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Crest Daddy wrote: | | is the black hall area mostly fresh? I ask because i have been told by a few that stripers do not well tolerate very cold freshwater . |
Black Hall is right at the mouth of the Connecticut River in Old Lyme, so it'd be very brackish, if not almost full salt.
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dogfishhead
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Forgot to mention one important thing the DEEP official told me. He said that the probable reason for the fish kill was the "shock" of the extreme cold that morning.
So it wasn't necessarily the cold temps alone, but the fact that it got so cold so quick that it put a deadly strain on the fish and it cost them their life.
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FishOn860
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Thanks for the info dogfishead I was looking everywhere but couldn't find anything.
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Redneckangler
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Some looks at the CT River. Not good for our resident striper population.
Photo: Boating in Connecticut (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=745064812190256&set=pcb.745065015523569&type=1&theater)
Photo: Capt. Blaine Anderson (https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10201894873187729&set=a.1958691881229.2098969.1060714045&type=1&theater)
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Michael
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OMG!!!!!
That second pic makes me think of the Arctic!
I've heard word that so far this climatological winter here in the Northeast is the coldest in close to 2 decades. Central Park recently hit a record low of 4 degrees, breaking an 1896 record of 6! |
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DirtyDawg10
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PECo
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Thanks, Derek, but I still don't buy the "cold shock" hypothesis. The water temperature before the cold snap was already 34 degrees or less and could drop to only 32 degrees or so. That makes no sense to me.
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