More dead fish washed up in the Atlantic Highlands Sunday Watch video
ATLANTIC HIGHLANDS -- Another fish kill has been reported at the Jersey Shore.
More dead fish washed up in the Atlantic Highlands Sunday, according to aerial footage taken by Blake Deakin, where thousands of what appears to be peanut bunker can be seen at a marina in the highlands.
The 34-year-old told the Asbury Park Press he spotted the fish kill Sunday morning and it got worse throughout the day.
The first weekend fish kill was reported Saturday. State officials estimated that between 10,000 and 15,000 bunker washed up over the weekend in Little Egg Harbor.
Bob Considine, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection, told the Asbury Park Press the number of bait fish, such as bunker, off the East Coast is higher than it has been in "more than a decade."
Considine has said that the DEP believes the fish are being chased by predators into areas where there are low levels of dissolved oxygen.
An estimated 1 million small peanut bunker were reported washed up on beaches in Keansburg earlier this week.
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