| Pollution | 13 Apr 2009 |
| RIVERKEEPER finds Lesionous Catfish in the South River by admin |
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In the early morning hours on March 12, 2009 my crew and I were performing our routine water quality monitoring. The River was calm with a low lying dense fog, that was just starting to disapate. As we left out of Broad Creek and started heading up the South River toward our next station at Flat Creek was saw a fish lying in the middle of the South River near Granville Creek. When we netted the fish is was slightly gasping, then died. This is one of South River's famous Lesionous Catfish. We found two of these catfish, approximately 14" long, both with red lesions all over them. You have to ask youself, how can this happen? We have a river with no industry on it; however we are pulling fish that have the same problems as areas that are hightly industrialized.
---Diana
