Dead herring wash ashore on Vancouver Island By ROBERT BARRON, Postmedia News January 21, 2011

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NANAIMO — Large numbers of dead herring that washed ashore this week on a Vancouver Island beach have both fishery officials and local fishermen looking for answers.

Will Meeks, who works close to Cedar’s North Beach where the fish washed ashore, said he knew something was amiss when he saw unusually large numbers of birds congregating on the beach Thursday morning.

He said he was surprised to find “thousands” of dead herring washed ashore, a scene he can’t recall ever seeing before on local beaches.

Meeks said the dead herring appear to localized to North Beach because he and friends checked nearby beaches and found nothing similar.

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