Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission chair and Livingston outfitter Dan Vermillion said river users he had talked to reported seeing “dead fish everywhere” across a large stretch of the river.
Vicki Schwarz said her group stopped on an island at one point during the float and saw several spread out on the shore.
“I’ve never seen the river like that in 20 years,” she said. “Once in a while we see dead fish, but nothing like that.”
According to the U.S. Geological Survey’s water gauge at Livingston, temperatures on the Yellowstone River did not exceed 68 degrees between last Wednesday and Sunday and were even a couple of degrees cooler at the next gauge upstream at Corwin Springs, so warmer water can not be to blamed.
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