Gulf Shores, Alabama - Laura Pfizenmayer walks the beach in Gulf Shores every morning. On Saturday, she was shocked with what she found.


"When we came down we saw dead fish. They were everywhere. I mean you don't have to find them. You can turn around and see them. They were everywhere," said Pfizenmayer.

Charles Kelly with the Gulf State Pier said they are spadefish and only spadefish. This causes him to worry

"The thing is it's the same kind of fish. It's not a mixture of fish. It's a spadefish, which looks like an angel fish that goes in the aquarium, they just get much larger," said Kelly. "There's just too many of them dying and of the same species that's very unusual."

Kelly said there had been reports of the fish washing up along three miles of the beaches.

"The spadefish eat the jelly fish and we normally don't have this many around until late summer but they're all over, dead, and we don't know why," said Kelly.

Kelly doesn't know where they came from, but this is certainly a first since he started working on the water in 1995.

"I've never seen this before," said Kelly.

People on the beach enjoying the sun couldn't help but see the little guys. Pfizenmayer hopes they won't be scared away.

"Something is happening out here. It frightens me it frightens me as a resident. We finally got people on the beach and I don't want our sea life dying," said Pfizenmayer.

Pfizenmayer wants an answer.

"I'm not an expert, I'm just a resident, a concerned resident and I'd like to know what's going on," said Pfizenmayer.

It is not clear what caused the fish to die.

Kelly said they have taken the fish to be tested.