Slicks of dead fish?

[buzz]

Hit the BB today. I wanted to fish the Kent Is side so I made my way across.
After passing the main channel and 2nd rock pile I came across this light brown foamy slick. Scattered about, up and down the slick were dead rockfish. Most looked under 20 and the few legal size ones had the meat cut off them.
There was a second slick near the secondary channel. Same thing... dead fish.
Is this normal? Or did I witness the scene of a crime?


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[FishMoken]

I paddle out of Jonas green and when I started to paddle toward the BB I saw the same thing, discolored brown slick with bubbles and floating rockfish, only a couple down that far but one looked close to 30". After I saw that I just went back to the river.


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[J USMC]

Fished the BB Sunday. Saw a few dead stripers. One around 30". Saw about 20 dead bunker.

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[jet]

ive seen the dead fish too. some think it's dead zones in the water column, others think it's the charter fleet, and there is even thought that the fish cant recover from catch and release because of water temperature. basically, no one knows for sure and i havent seen a comment from DNR yet

[buzz]

The oxygen levels are extremely low. I suppose that could be part of the problem.
http://giphy.com/gifs/3o7TKnsKeT64Gtp00U


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[Yakinzak]

Been seeing a ton of these dead fish in the Patapsco outside of Ft. Smallwood and near 7ft Knoll.. Its a shame.

[gillplate]

water temperature/ low oxygen certainly makes the rockfish a lot less hardy than in colder spring/fall water. I've seen many a lip hooked fish want to go belly up in august.
Best to get your limit and quit. I've been on boats that will hold out one or two short of a limit, trying to get that 32"er and throw back 25 21"ers trying. Its a bad practice.
Hit it and quit.

[buzz]

Hit it and quit.

Couldn't have said it better.


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