Fish Kills on the Hudson Castleton NY 12033

Reading in the New York Times today that there are enormous sardine mass deaths off the coast of California . Speculation is lack of oxygen as the fish crowded into the harbor. Millions of dead Sardines. I remember smaller fish kills along the Hudson River in my youth in my hometown of Castleton on Hudson New York 12033. As I have previously stated in other blogs that Castleton was noted for it's rate of high pollution. Once was sited in a 1967 NYT Magazine article as the biggest polluters in the Hudson River Valley. Between the Brown Company paper mill and the Anti-Corrosive small steel mill , the open sewers directly into the river and general dumping by garages and farm runoff into streams we had problems in this area. This toxic mix along with the general pollution of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers lead to fish mass killings. Especially at Castleton where it seemed many fish or waterfowl decided to give up so to speak. In I believe 1966 in June or July atleast plus 500 fish washed up on shore with the river tides. With plus 85 degree weather this made for unpleasant times for residents along the river . Many took vacation time to escape. In those times one could smell the river more than two miles away if the prevailing westerlies were blowing. On more than one occasion bulldozers were used to plow up the mass of dead fish and cart them off by dump truck to be buried. With modern pollution legislation this mass killing problem was eventually eliminated to a large extent within the Hudson Valley region. Making summers a more livable circumstance.