The Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources is investigating a massive die-off of Asian carp discovered Wednesday in the Cumberland River below Lake Barkley, which includes the shores along Dycusburg. The fish kill is estimated to have impacted tens of thousands of the invasive silver carp over a 24-hour period. Specimens will be collected and taken to Kentucky State University for disease testing.
Officials believe the fish-kill is related to a bacterial or viral infection largely contained to a single species of fish and not tied to a water quality issue.
