| ] At least 100 dead fish were seen yesterday floating in] the Oyster Creek by the nuclear power plant here, a
 ] veteran fisherman reported.
 ]
 ] Plant investigators saw four dead fish by the Route 9
 ] bridge that crosses the creek and another near the
 ] plant's property line, but officials here said the plant
 ] did not cause them to die.
 ]
 ] "We've checked all of our systems and we've done
 ] nothing," said Ernest J. Harkness, site vice president at
 ] the Oyster Creek plant.
 ] The plant was shut down since Tuesday following an] electrical malfunction. Power generation should resume
 ] within the next two days, Harkness said.
 ]
 ] In December, the largest fine ever assessed on a New
 ] Jersey nuclear power plant for causing a fish kill --
 ] $372,912 -- was levied by the state Department of
 ] Environmental Protection against Oyster Creek.
 Oh yeah..  The plant is _never_ killing the fish.  Not this time, not earlier this year, not every six months this happens. This time it was only a few hundred (or the offical number of "four"), last time it was thousands.  Does this mean they are getting better? The workers are still striking too.. Asbury Park Press | Official: Plant did not kill any fish |