People in Bayou Chaland of Louisiana, USA, have discovered hundreds of thousands of dead fish in the area west of the Mississippi River.
For more context, see Why the dead fish float?.
Authorities have not yet identified the cause of the disaster but the dead fish area is affected by the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
Brett Michael Dykes, a local resident, provided some photographs of the disaster to the press and shocked the public.
" What you see in the picture is not a rough, gravel road in the countryside. It's a canal in Louisiana with countless shrimp, crabs, fish, eels . dead and full of channels ," Dykes. explain more.
