Prospect Island

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Site of the large fish kill - 27 Nov 2007.

"State and federal officials said Monday they were investigating the death of thousands of game fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta after a federal agency drained the water around a protected island during a levee repair.

"Masses of fish could be seen floating in shallow water on Prospect Island, a 1,253-acre plot next to Sacramento's Deep Water Ship Channel that is administered by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation.

"The bureau stopped draining the remaining water behind the levee Monday and started removing the fish carcasses, spokesman Jeff McCracken said. The agency will add oxygen to the water in hopes of saving some of the remaining fish, he said."