Thousands of dead fish are piling up around Lake Merritt in Oakland due to a harmful algae bloom impacting the San Francisco Bay.
Topsmelt, bass and bat rays were among the dead fish that appeared along the lake’s shoreline over the weekend, according to environmental groups.
“I have not seen this amount of fish dead from the red tide before,” said James Robinson, executive director of the Lake Merritt Institute, an organization that hosts volunteer trash cleanups around the lake.
Thousands of fish killed by Lake Merritt algae bloom producing ‘pungent’ scentSource: San Francisco Chronicle