Taylorsville Lake Algae Bloom

Has anyone else heard about this on the news and do you think fish and wildlife will correct this?

The article I read mentioned affecting people in the water but does it also harm the fish? Could it cause a fish kill or make the fish unsafe to eat?

[QUOTE=Jeffflem514;516774]The article I read mentioned affecting people in the water but does it also harm the fish? Could it cause a fish kill or make the fish unsafe to eat?[/QUOTE]


What do you mean "affecting people in the water"?

[QUOTE=cantcatchafish;516775]What do you mean "affecting people in the water"?[/QUOTE]

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[url=http://www.courierpress.com/news/2013/jun/28/algae-bloom-found-in-taylorsville-lake/]Algae bloom found in Taylorsville Lake » Evansville Courier & Press[/url]

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... pappy

Anyone heard anything else about this?

The real issue that everyone is sidestepping is what caused it.
The most logical answer is pollution.
Taylorsville Lake has always had a pollution problem
and it's mostly kept quiet.
The lake has some serious issues.

[QUOTE=jcclark;516970]The real issue that everyone is sidestepping is what caused it.
The most logical answer is pollution.
Taylorsville Lake has always had a pollution problem
and it's mostly kept quiet.
The lake has some serious issues.[/QUOTE]

Blue green algae naturally occurs, my guess would be with all the rain you had a lot more fertilizer from farm runoff get into the lake which compounded the problem.

dac244 - You are on the money. My daughter is an environmental biologist and explained it to me. Cyanobacteria is the current bloom at Taylorsville. Most algae blooms are caused by excess nutrients. Usually the excess nutrients come from high levels of fertilizer (which usually has a lot of phosphorous). The algae feeds on the nutrients and multiplies quickly. The biggest problem is that as the algae dies off it creates toxins and also as it decays uses oxygen in the water. Too much and the oxygen can be depleted and there can be fish kills or dead zones. It's like at the mouth of the Mississippi river there is a large dead zone due to all of the excess nutrients in that area of the river.

Yep! that's the pollution.
Wonder why the other lakes don't have this problem,
at least not near as bad anyway.

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... pappy[/QUOTE]

I did not know that and I guess I've never seen that particular critter.