News from The Associated Press: ""If we are killing the fish, we definitely want to know why," he said. "However, I also should point out that there's a bass-fishing tournament in La Crosse every weekend, and when's the last time you saw this many dead? After last year's tournament (which was the first year of the study)."
Perhaps the way the DNR conducted the study was a factor, Stellner said.
The agency put about 100 fish a day in 8-by-8-foot holding pens on the Black River. An equal number of tournament-caught fish and fish culled from the wild using electroshocking were kept for a side-by-side comparison."