Warming weather could mean more anoxic events in P.E.I. waterways, biologist says [Video]

Unless you’re standing at the very edge of P.E.I.’s Trout River, near Gunn’s Bridge, seeing much below the surface is probably out of the question.  

The water looks like it’s been mixed with a massive jug of milk. It smells funky too — kind of like rotten eggs — and little fish are swimming as close as they can to the top.

These are all strong indicators that this estuary is what’s called anoxic. 

“It is when there is low oxygen in the water,” said Kyle Knysh, a surface water biologist with P.E.I.’s Department of Environment, Energy and Climate Action. 

“When there’s low oxygen, fish and invertebrates and mostly anything in the water that likes breathing oxygen doesn’t do very well. So they avoid an area — or, if they’re trapped, [they] can die.”

The oxygen levels are low in some bodies of water on the Island, a phenomenon experts …