ClarionLedger.com (excerpts):  Brandon, MS - Scores of dead fish floated in Crossgates Lake on Friday, permeating the air with the stench of decay in an almost identical scenario as one that played out last summer.  "I don't know what's going on with that lake," said Dennis Riecke, Fisheries Coordinator with the State Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks.  "They have fish kills there just about every year."  A fish kill refers to large quantities of fish dying for any number of reasons, including low water levels and decreased oxygen levels in the water.  "Crossgates Lake appears to have experienced a 'turn over' following heavy rains on Tuesday night," said Robbie Wilbur, spokesman for Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality.  "Many lakes, especially in the South, stratify into layers during the summer months.  When this happens, the top layer is made up of warm oxygenated water and the lower layer is cool water, often with little or no oxygen."  Wilbur said a thunderstorm's high winds, mixed with cool rain and run off into the lake, can cause a turn over, which in turn can dilute available oxygen to the point where fish can no longer survive.  "That appears to be what happened in the Crossgates Lake fish kill," he said.  Brandon Alderwoman Yvonne Bianchi lives off the lake and she said the fish kill wasn't a surprise with the current hot weather.  "Every time it's extremely dry, we have the same problem," Bianchi said, adding last year's fish kill occurred in similar conditions.  "If the lake was aerated, we wouldn't have this problem."  Bianchi said she drove across the lake on Friday to view some of the areas where the dead fish were floating.  "There were buzzards eating the dead fish and a dead duck on that side," she said.  Meanwhile DEQ officials are looking into a similar event that hit portions of Deer Creek in the Mississippi Delta Wednesday.  "Deer Creek is experiencing extremely low water levels due to the drought and is probably exacerbated by irrigation withdrawals," Wilbur said.  

My Comments:  I don't know if you noticed, but there are four different reasons given for the fish die-offs in these areas.  There have been many other reasons given for the same types of fish die-offs all around the world since the beginning of the year.  I even remember one "expert" explaining that the "fish may have gotten lost" near the docks in Redondo Beach earlier this year!  I can't even recall the countless reasons given for massive fish die-offs throughout the world during about the last seven months.  Whatever reasons they want to place on the fish dying, I can tell you this:  The Bible says that in the last days the earth will "languish" and the fish will die, "Therefore, the land will mourn and everyone that dwells in it will languish, with the beasts of the field and the fowls of heaven; yes, the fishes of the sea will be taken away" Hosea 4:3.  Prophecy is being fulfilled before our eyes.  I can tell you that as sure as the many fish are dying, our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, is returning to this earth very soon to redeem his children and take us home, just as He promised in His Word, "If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto Myself, that where I am, there you will be also" John 14:3.