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River restocking continues following massive fish kill

Associated Press — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 00:33:23 +0000

PEARL RIVER — After a three-hour journey in a truck-mounted fish tank, thousands of young bluegills were released into the West Pearl River in St. Tammany Parish, La., last week. In small batches, state wildlife officials released 200,000 bluegills — raised at a state hatchery in Alexandria, La., — into the river near Interstate 59 [...]

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Fish kill prompts closure of Bayou Casotte industrial area

Associated Press — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:00:39 +0000

JACKSON COUNTY — The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and the Mississippi Department of Marine Resources have issued a fishing and water contact closure for Bayou Casotte and the adjacent waters of the Mississippi Sound within 1,000 feet of the mouth of the bayou. The agencies say staff investigated a fish kill in Bayou Casotte [...]

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Reservoir discharge returns to normal post-fish kill

MBJ Staff — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:27:26 +0000

SOUTH MISSISSIPPI — The Pearl River Valley Water Supply District (PRV) has resumed normal operations of its fresh water discharge into the Pearl River from the Ross Barnett Reservoir. For a two-day period the PRV had increased that discharge in an effort to assist the people on the lower Pearl River as they recover from [...]

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