[OldDeckHand]

It is New Jersey - the list of possible causes could be endless - sorry New Jersey.

[Izzy Dunne]

it's not yet clear what killed the fish, which appear to exclusively small menhaden, also known as peanut bunker.

That's like English, only different.

[headstamp 2]

Luca Brasi’s fault

[BlueStateRefugee]

It is probably the Gulf Oil Spill poisoning the Ocean

[mylife]

One can only hope that more dead fish will wash up in Martha’s Vineyard while the Obamas are there.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

Never heard of menhaden...but bunker fish are called bunkers along Jersey shore; aka “bait.”

[dfwgator]

“It’s a Sicilian message.”

[HiTech RedNeck]

CBS has the grammatical gaffe too. It should say “to BE exclusively small menhaden”.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** dead fish have washed ashore along the Delaware Bay in southern New Jersey. ***

John Conyers? Maxine Waters? Rahm Emanuel?

[Hot Tabasco]

peanut bunker.

Peanut bunker turned my life around........If it wasn't for peanut bunker I'd be living a life of destitution on the streets, begging for handouts from stingy democrats..........

[EBH]

hmmmm...filter feeders.

Could literally be anything. And they travel in schools...so this will appear worse than it really is.

[abortionisalwaysmurder]

It is New Jersey - the list of possible causes could be endless - sorry New Jersey.

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Do you know why New Jersey got all those chemical plants and that dissgusting smell as you drive down 95 and Massachusetts got barney frank, mitt romeny, and johnnie kerry?

New Jersey got first choice.

[and so?]

Does Snookie have an alibi?

Just sayin'...

[Texas Fossil]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhaden

The Atlantic menhaden (Brevoortia tyrannus) is a small, oily-fleshed fish

The maximum size for the Atlantic menhaden is usually 15 inches (380 mm).

They are bright silver, and have black spots extending horizontally from the gill plate to the tail, with the largest directly behind the gill plate. They are quite flat and soft fleshed, with a deeply forked tail. The edges of the fins and tail often have a yellowish hue. At sea, schools may contain millions of members.

[Steely Tom]

North Korean artillery practice!

NK is near New Jersey, right?

[FourPeas]

Alright, who in NJ ticked-off Rahm Emanuel?

[RS_Rider]

Snooki

[mrsmith]

If I see fish on shore washing up I give them a bar of soap and send them back in the water.
Fish are too stupid to reaize that they can’t breathe on shore-
But that’s where the soap is so they keep coming.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Just when you thought that George W. Bush’s problems were over, THIS happens.

[Bigg Red]

State environmental and wildlife officials say it’s not yet clear what killed the fish, which appear to exclusively small menhaden....

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So is it the ghosts of the dead fish that are appearing to the small menhaden? Is there an aquatic psychic involved? And I have heard people describe this fish or that as “small”, but how can something be “exclusively small”?

[TigersEye]

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