(WJET/WFXP)– Visitors to the shores of Lake Erie were greeted with a foul smell and the sight of hundreds of dead fish washing up Friday morning.
Clean-up crews had their hands and wheelbarrows full Friday after hundreds of dead fish could be seen littering Shades Beach in Harborcreek.
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Harborcreek Township said on their social media that they had crews working on cleaning up the mess on Shades Beach and in the boat ramp area, with plans to be out again on Saturday.
A similar incident unfolded around the same time last year, when thousands of dead fish washed up on Shades Beach, enough to fill an entire dump truck.
Dr. Sherri Mason, the director of Project NePTWNE at Gannon University, told us that during our coverage of that incident were high winds mixing low-oxygen water at the bottom of the lake, turning it towards the top and killing the fish.
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