Millions of dead fish swamp L.A.-area marina 'Tons and tons of dead fish rotting';

[JayGoliath]

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"It looks like they just swam in the wrong direction and ended up in a corner of the pier that doesn't have any free-flowing oxygen in it," Hughan said.

High winds might then have kept the fish from leaving the harbor and they all crushed up against the harbor wall, where they used up the oxygen and suffocated.

"There's nothing that appears to be out of sorts, no oil sheen no chemicals, no sign of any kind of illegal activity," Hughan said. "As one fisherman just told me, this is natural selection."

Hughan said such incidents were rare but not unheard of.