After 100,000 Fish Killed, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission Official says, It’s still Okay to Eat the Fish!! Does that go double for massive bird kill too?

Anyone up for a fish dinner? 

MSNBC: State officials on Monday were investigating why 80,000 to 100,000 fish washed up dead on the shores of the Arkansas River last week. Officials said 95 percent of the fish that died were drum fish — indicating that the likely cause of death was disease as only one species was affected.

Keith Stephens, a spokesman for the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (said), "Right now it's fine to fish," KTHV quoted Stephens as saying. "If you go out there you can still fish for bass and crappie, catfish, it will be fine. Obviously don't eat the dead fish."

Now that's a warning you can believe in. But there's more;

The mass kill occurred just one day before thousands of blackbirds dropped dead from the sky in Beebe, Ark., which is 125 miles away.

Preliminary autopsies on 17 of the up to 5,000 blackbirds that fell on this town indicate they died of blunt trauma to their organs … suggests they suffered some massive midair collision. That lends weight to theories that lightning, hail or New Year's Eve fireworks hit or startled the birds.