Fisheries Chief, Jim Dexter, from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, says that this is part of a natural phenomenon that is due to lowering oxygen levels underwater while waters are frozen over, causing some fish that cannot make it to deeper parts of the water to get oxygen to die, then washing up ashore when the lake, river, or other body of water thaws. This is known as “winter kill.”

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