March 18, 2015 — The washing ashore of hundreds of menhaden Monday morning north of Corolla and other Outer Banks beaches was caused by a natural fish feeding frenzy.
“Something was feeding on large schools of menhaden and pushing them up to the waters’ surface very near shore,” Charlton Godwin, biologist with the Division of Marine Fisheries said in an email. “Birds were working the entire area as well. This seems to be the likely cause of the dead menhaden washing up.”
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