Abstract
| This photograph was published in the La Crosse Tribune on March 9, 1962. The photograph's caption reads: "Dead fish - gizzard shad - have accumulated in warm water in Bluff Slough at the foot of Townsend Street and on warm days residents smell trouble. A storm sewer empties warm water from Trane Co. and Dairyland Power into the slough, keeping the area free from ice, says Public Works Director Carl Wahlstrom. For the past few years, warm water has attracted gizzard shad and other fish, says State Fish Biologist Raymond Hubley. Tests taken Thursday showed three parts of oxygen for million parts of water, just on the borderlin of the amount needed for fish survival, said Wahlstrom. Hubbard says gizzard shad are usually the first affected by lack of oxygen. Conservationists say that herring and Frankling gulls will come in as soon as the area opens and will eat the fish. But sensitive-nosed area residents don't want to wait that long."
On the envelope housing the negative is written: "March 1, 1962. Fish dead in the Mississippi River." |
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