Thousands of Fish Die

The drought and heat is hard on lots of things besides corn, beans and the power grid.

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Thousands of fish are dying in the Midwest as the hot, dry summer dries up rivers and causes water temperatures to climb in some spots to nearly 100 degrees.

About 40,000 shovelnose sturgeon were killed in Iowa last week as water temperatures reached 97 degrees. Nebraska fishery officials said they've seen thousands of dead sturgeon, catfish, carp, and other species in the Lower Platte River, including the endangered pallid sturgeon. And biologists in Illinois said the hot weather has killed tens of thousands of large- and smallmouth bass and channel catfish and is threatening the population of the greater redhorse fish, a state-endangered species.

So many fish died in one Illinois lake that the carcasses clogged an intake screen near a power plant, lowering water levels to the point that the station had to shut down one of its generators.

"It's something I've never seen in my career, and I've been here for more than 17 years," said Mark Flammang, a fisheries biologist with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. "I think what we're mainly dealing with here are the extremely low flows and this unparalleled heat."

"Those fish have been in these rivers for thousands of thousands of years, and they're accustomed to all sorts of weather conditions," he said. "But sometimes, you have conditions occur that are outside their realm of tolerance."

In Illinois, heat and lack of rain has dried up a large swath of Aux Sable Creek, the state's largest habitat for the endangered greater redhorse, a large bottom-feeding fish, said Dan Stephenson, a biologist with the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.

"We're talking hundreds of thousands (killed), maybe millions by now," Stephenson said. "If you're only talking about game fish, it's probably in the thousands. But for all fish, it's probably in the millions if you look statewide."

Here;  http://www.wric.com/story/19199656/thousands-of-fish-die-as-midwest-streams-heat-up

What??  He has NEVER SEEN THAT??

I wonder how long mankind can live if the corn dries up, the beans dry up, the forests burn down and the fish in all the lakes and rivers die off?

God is certainly in control...and He will do whatever He wants.  After all...it's His creation.

God tells us in Zephaniah;

“I will sweep away both man and beast;
I will sweep away the birds in the sky
and the fish in the sea—
and the idols that cause the wicked to stumble.”

“When I destroy all mankind
on the face of the earth,” declares the Lord, 

I remember last year when the thousands of birds fell from the sky and now we have millions of fish dying in rivers and lakes where they have lived for centuries.

It sure makes one wonder if this is more foreshadowing of the closeness of that Great and Terrible Day of the Lord.

Thank you Jesus that we will not be here to see it.  Blessed are you, the Peacemaker, who has given us peace from the wrath of Almighty God.

Jeremiah 10:10
But the LORD is the true God; he is the living God, the eternal King. When he is angry, the earth trembles; the nations cannot endure his wrath.

Hat tip to Lowell E.