big eyed jacks
Hundreds of big eyed jacks have washed up on a stretch of East Coast beach and environment officials aren't quite sure why.

Right now, their best guess is low oxygen levels in the water.

Yesterday morning the dead silver scale fish were the first thing that greeted Kim Somerville, who walks the Cattlewash, St Joseph beach every weekend.

She journeyed to the area for her weekly ritual, when she came across the sight.

Some of the hundreds of jacks on the beach at Cattlewash, St Joseph.
© Heather-Lynn EvansonSome of the hundreds of jacks on the beach at Cattlewash, St Joseph.