The Environmental Protection Agency sent an emergency team to South Dakota over the weekend after the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe reported a massive fish kill in the Big Sioux River.
Anywhere from 30,000 to 50,000 fish died last week, according to the EPA. Possible causes include a natural winter kill or phosphates from arm fertilizers. Tribal officials say the large number, location -- most natural kills occur in lakes, according to the tribe's water quality specialist -- and varying species of dead fish were troublesome.
The EPA took samples of the water. Results are due next week.
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