First it was dead Herring
Then Lobster and Scallops
Now it’s everything
A marine mystery is confounding residents of southwest Nova Scotia who are watching thousands of dead fish, starfish, crabs, clams, scallops and lobster wash up on the shore.
Residents of Plympton, a small community in Digby County, say they have been finding dead herring on the shore of St. Mary’s Bay for more than a month, but recently other marine life has started washing up dead.
Dead fish have also been found on the shores of the Annapolis Basin.
“We started finding starfish, crabs, flounder.
We found ocean perch and then yesterday we started finding scallops on the beach and like I said everything’s dead… we’d like to know what’s going on,” said Karl Cole.
“It’s just really sad to see, you know, hundreds of starfish, shellfish.
I grew up clamming here so to come to your hometown and see so much death on the beach is really sad,” said Eric Hewey.
