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Last Gasp: Nova Scotia Power is blamed for a massive fish kill in the Gaspereau River

"Tens of thousands" of gaspereau died so rubber duckies could race in the Apple Blossom Festival.

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The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) is investigating an abnormally large fish kill near a Nova Scotia Power hydro station on the Gaspereau River, about eight kilometers from Wolfville. Photographs taken by fishermen of gaspereau — a bony, migratory species that is netted, salted, and mostly shipped off to the Caribbean — show dead…

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