Subject: dead brown trout. necropsy?

From: [email-masked] (James J Montgomery)
Date: 31 May 1995 02:51:59 GMT

Hey all,

	Today I  found a dead brown trout in a stream that I spend a lot 
of time on.  It had just recently died, as rigor mortis hadn't set in 
yet.  The fish was 13" long (big for this small river), wild, male (kype) 
and in excellent condition.  There was no evidence of hooking injury, nor 
any open wounds from birds, etc.   This fish had two bleach marks on his 
dorsal side, on anterior to his dorsal fin and one posterior to it.  the 
marks were perhaps a quarter inch by half inch.  The distal ends of each 
of his fins were also bleached out, perhaps the the distal fifth or 
quarter.  The pool he was in had recently been stocked with rainbow 
trout.  Does anyone have any idea what caused this fish's death?

				-jamie ([email-masked])