Hundreds of dead seabirds found near Indianola
Published 12:08 pm Thursday, October 25, 2007
INDIANOLA, Wash. — The state Fish and Wildlife Department is investigating the death of 209 seabirds found dead on a beach near Indianola on the west side of Puget Sound at the Port Madison Reservation.
Most of the birds found Sunday were common murres and about a dozen were Pacific loons.
The state agency sent some of the birds to a lab to determine the cause of death.
One Fish and Wildlife official, deputy chief of enforcement Mike Cenci, says the potential causes include disease, pollution or the incidental death of the fish-eating birds in purse seine nets.
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Information from: Kitsap Sun, http://www.kitsapsun.com/
