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Fish Kills

Fish Kills. The Brayton Point power station on Mt. Hope Bay in Massachusetts entrained an astonishing 164 million menhaden and river herring on a single day, July 2, 1971. The P.H. Robinson plant in Galveston Bay, Texas impinged more than seven million fish in 12 months in 1969 and 1970,

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Fish Kills

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  1. Fish Kills • The Brayton Point power station on Mt. Hope Bay in Massachusetts entrained an astonishing 164 million menhaden and river herring on a single day, July 2, 1971. • The P.H. Robinson plant in Galveston Bay, Texas impinged more than seven million fish in 12 months in 1969 and 1970, • Indian Point nuclear facility on New York’s Hudson River impinged 1.3 million fish over a 10-week period. • In the late summer of 1971, more than two million dead menhaden clogged the screens at the Millstone plant in Niantic Bay, Connecticut. • Although Congress took action the carnage never really stopped. In early February 2004, the San Onofre plant north of San Diego killed about 13,500 pounds of sardines in a 24-hour period. And while these extraordinary fish kills make news, the daily losses of billions of aquatic organisms go largely unnoticed

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