Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up on New Jersey Shores, Leaving Putrid Smell for Residents
Thousands of Dead Fish Wash Up on New Jersey Shores, Leaving Putrid Smell for Residents Brian Thompson © Provided by NBC New York Just over a month ago, a fish was spotted by New Jersey-based nonprofit group Clean Ocean Action as it was in a death throe, spinning in circles in the Navisink River. Now far more dying menhaden, also called bunker fish, are spinning in circles, this time in the Shrewsbury River. Those fish clinging to life are are surrounded by tens of thousands of other dead fish spotted up and down both rivers that empty into Sandy Hook Bay. The dead menhaden ...