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Dead fish cover 20-mile section of Arkansas River

Commission spokesman Keith Stephens says an official estimate of how many fish have died is expected on Monday

January 01, 2011

  OZARK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas Game and Fish Commissionspokesman says dead drum fish now cover a 20-mile section of theArkansas River near Ozark.      Seven teams from the state agency visited the affected portionof the river Friday. Commission spokesman Keith Stephens says anofficial estimate of how many fish have died is expected on Monday,but he tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the number islikely in the hundreds of thousands.      The commission determined the fish died in the river from a damnear Ozark to a bridge along State Highway 109 near Clarksville.      Stephens says some of the live drum fish were sick and will besent to a lab at the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff for testing.      Drum fish are bottom feeders that eat other fish and insects.  OZARK, Ark. (AP) - An Arkansas Game and Fish Commissionspokesman says dead drum fish now cover a 20-mile section of theArkansas River near Ozark.      Seven teams from the state agency visited the affected portionof the river. Commission spokesman Keith Stephens says anofficial estimate of how many fish have died is expected on Monday,but he tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the number islikely in the hundreds of thousands.      The commission determined the fish died in the river from a damnear Ozark to a bridge along State Highway 109 near Clarksville.      Stephens says some of the live drum fish were sick and will besent to a lab at the University of Arkansas-Pine Bluff for testing.      Drum fish are bottom feeders that eat other fish and insects.

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