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Plain Dealer: Biologists Investigating Fish Kills in Solon Lake

Metroparks fear all the trout may be dead in Shadow Lake, located in the South Chagrin Reservation, the paper reports

The Plain Dealer had a story about Metroparks officials worried that all the rainbow trout in Shadow Lake may be dead.

From the article:

The sudden deaths of hundreds of stocked trout in the Cleveland Metroparks' Shadow Lake in the South Chagrin Reservation have anglers puzzled and biologists investigating what might have gone wrong under the ice.

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Metroparks Fisheries Biologist Mike Durkalec said Friday that "it's very likely all the rainbow trout are dead" in the three-acre lake, which sits south of Solon Road and east of Richmond Road in Solon. He said he also saw several dead sunfish this week near the edge of the lake.

"This is unprecedented for this lake, which is why we're investigating it so actively," Durkalec said. 

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