1983 DEAD FISH
CAPE HENLOPEN TO DEWEY
BEACH
NO SWIMMING
Rehoboth Beach Friday
8 July 1983:
Bathers avoided the waters
of Delaware's ressort area Thursday, as thousands of dead
fish washed ashore.
Swimming was banned by officials for fear of shark feeding on
the
dead menhaden.
At Lewes Beach, the main
beach lifeguard, Bob Gatchel, closed his beach to swimmers,
just ot prevent a risk to
anything.
At Cape Henlopen State Park
, crews used tractors with frontend loaders and 20 ton trucks
to haul off the rotting
fish but did not ban swimming.
The dead mamhaden were
spotted Wednesday over an eight mile streach of water just north
of Cape Henlopen to south
of Rehoboth Beach.
A State Park Official ,
Charles Lesser, said the next high tide during the night will bring
in more fish to the south and it will be rather aromatic in the
morning.
A fishing accident was the
cause of the dead fish, the Zapata Haynie Corporation , of
Reedsville, Virginia ,
fishing off Cape Henlopen, loading manhaden into a trawler, one
and one
half miles off shore, lost
fish when a large net split. The fish company notified the state
and
offered to pay for the
clean up.
The Delaware legislature
has just this Wednesday approved a bill which will prohibit
manhaden fishing to within
three mile of the shore. Menhaden are used to profuce fisg meal and
oil.
Source: Newport News Daily
Press , Friday July 8, 1983, Newport News , Virginia.
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