NEBO, N.C. — North Carolina biologists want to know what killed hundreds of fish at Lake James.
They'll be testing the water Wednesday at Paddys Creek in Nebo, after a couple hundred walleye fish washed ashore.
Duke Energy officials are also testing the water, because they have a hydroelectric dam at the lake.
People who grew up on the lake are upset.
One biologist said tests suggested a pocket of water with no oxygen formed deep in the lake, and the warm, dry weather is pushing the fish down into it, killing them.
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