Dead bait fish

[Sweet Caroline]

Channel 8 News doing a report at 11pm tonight on all the dead alewife. Said they are getting a lot of questions about it. 

[chinook35]

here's the DEC explanation for all the dead alewives along the shore .  This is what we used to see in the 50's and 60's , before the introduction of the salmonids 

 

https://www.localsyr.com/news/state-news/thousands-of-dead-fish-line-the-lake-ontario-shoreline-dec-explains/

[jimski2]

Did this guy count the gobies?

[jperch]

I have not seen large numbers of dead gobies, ever.  Alewives seem very fragile.  We used to net juveniles for perch bait and it was near impossible to keep them alive.  Sometimes we froze them in tin foil.  Gobies, on the other hand, seem tougher.  Plus they live on the bottom and don't have a swim bladder supposedly so I'm guessing they stay on the bottom mostly when they die.  Maybe.

[GAMBLER]

2 hours ago, jperch said:

I have not seen large numbers of dead gobies, ever.  Alewives seem very fragile.  We used to net juveniles for perch bait and it was near impossible to keep them alive.  Sometimes we froze them in tin foil.  Gobies, on the other hand, seem tougher.  Plus they live on the bottom and don't have a swim bladder supposedly so I'm guessing they stay on the bottom mostly when they die.  Maybe.

Gobies will not float up when they die.