TUPELO, Miss. (AP) - A children’s fishing rodeo went mostly belly-up in northeast Mississippi after a contractor stocked the lake with diseased and dying catfish.
Tupelo Parks & Recreation Director Alex Farned tells The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal that few of the 300 kids who showed up for the Friday fishing competition caught anything.
Farned says a contractor delivered 1,700 catfish Wednesday. He says the fish were packed too tightly in the truck and had a bacterial infection. Fish began floating to the surface of Veterans Park lake on Thursday. Farned says city workers have skimmed out more than 1,000 dead fish and buried them in a pit.
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Farned says the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks hired the fish supplier and will help restore the lake’s catfish population once the situation stabilizes.
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Information from: Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal, http://djournal.com
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