All day Wednesday, customers coming into Ben Budd's bait-and-tackle shop in Cape May County marveled at the thousands of dead menhaden they had seen along the Delaware Bay shoreline.
By late afternoon, the state Department of Environmental Protection had announced that it was investigating what it termed a "major" washup of dead fish.
Officials reported that the swath of dead menhaden – a small bait fish also known as peanut bunker – extended along seven to eight miles of shoreline from Kimbles Beach in Middle Township south to Villas in Lower Township, including an area known as Pierces Point.
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