Experts are worried about more mass Bay area fish kills

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Experts are worried about more mass Bay area fish kills

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Bay’s huge algae bloom is over. But experts are worried about more mass fish kills in the future.jpg
Seagulls sit next to dead fish in Lake Merritt in Oakland in August. Algae blooms on the lake and in San Francisco Bay killed many fish in late summer.
Brontë Wittpenn, photographer / The Chronicle

Bay’s huge algae bloom is over. But experts are worried about more mass fish kills in the future
Two months after the worst algae bloom in decades began spreading through the San Francisco Bay, eventually killing an untold number of fish, ecologists and water officials are still trying to determine exactly what caused it and how such a devastating event can be prevented in the future.

“I don’t think we’ll ever really know what actually triggered it,” said Eileen White, executive officer of San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, which has called for extra monitoring since the bloom, which is officially over. However, this week’s warm weather makes her nervous that another one could happen before cooler weather and shorter days with less of the sunlight that triggers blooms.
“Once we get through October, I’m not concerned about the winter,” said White.
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