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Dozens of young salmon have been killed in North Vancouver’s Maplewood Creek, after a suspected spill of chemicals into the storm system.
North Shore Streamkeepers volunteers were making one of their regular visits to the creek May 8 when one spotted a dead fish. As they made their way down from the stormwater outflow, they found more and more. “Thirty-seven fish. Everything in that bottom part [of the creek] was dead,” said Zo Ann Morten, streamkeepers volunteer. “There’s nothing left.” Initially they assumed it had been 6PPD-quinone – a chemical compound used in car tires that accumulates on roadsides and then causes mass fishkills when stormwater moves it into creek systems. Two weeks earlier on the same creek, there had been another fish kill that almost certainly was caused by toxic 6PPD, Morton said. District of North Vancouver staff came to the site immediately after the Streamkeepers reported it to look for a potential source. There was someone using a power washer with cleaning products in the area connected to the storm system, which is a known threat to aquatic life. Continued on A25
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