Post date: Sep 17, 2010 7:2:55 PM
Still photographs released by the Louisiana government show massive amounts of dead fish in an area impacted by the BP oil spill.
BAYOU CHALAND, LOUISIANA, UNITED STATES. PLAQUEMINES PARISH GOVERNMENT - The Plaquemines Parish government in southeastern Louisiana released still photographs showing massive amounts of dead fish in the Bayou Chaland area.
The cause of the fish kill has not been determined, but the area they were discovered in was impacted by oil from the BP oil spill.
The photos taken on September 10 show the carcasses of pogie fish, redfish, shrimp, crabs and freshwater eels.
The BP oil spill began with a blowout on April 20 that sparked an explosion and fire aboard the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, killing 11 men. The resulting spill fouled parts of the Gulf Coast from Louisiana east and stifled the area's fishing and tourism industries.