Saturday, Jan. 3, 2015 | 2 a.m.
SPARKS — Hundreds of fish have turned up dead in an urban Nevada lake, a year after a die-off claimed all of its estimated 100,000 fish.
Sparks city spokesman Adam Mayberry says roughly 500 trout have died since last Saturday in the Sparks Marina east of Reno.
He says both die-offs have been linked to a sharp drop in dissolved oxygen levels due to cold weather, and officials are hoping the latest event doesn't worsen.
Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Chris Healy says the 77-acre lake was restocked with 50,000 trout beginning in April after the previous die-off killed all of its trout, catfish and bass.
He says the lake won't have a die-off on the scale of a year ago because it now holds fewer than 20,000 trout due to anglers and birds.
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