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Observers kept an eye on the eastern portion of a North Carolina river after approximately 6 million fish turned up dead.

The Sun Journal of New Bern reported Sunday that waterway watchers were measuring the fish kill on the Neuse River. The estimate has grown to more than 5.5 million fish, mostly Atlantic menhaden.

The fish are now impossible to ignore near area rivers and creeks because of volume and smell.

Lower Neuse Riverkeeper Larry Baldwin said the magnitude of the fish kill is not normal. He said while the numbers were increasing, the pace of the kill was slowing.

Test results are expected this week. But experts say it appears low-oxygen saltwater along the river bottom mixed with the upper layers of fresh water and led to the kill.

from WRAL.com