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Posted By Katie Hennessey on Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 9:38 AM click to enlarge Katie Hennessey February s winter storm didn t just cause suffering to Texans that lost power and water; it also harmed the local fish population. The San Antonio River Authority is looking into the deaths of fish found floating along the San Antonio River Walk, which it says were casualties of freezing temperatures, not poor water quality. Dead fish have been seen floating in the San Antonio River due to uninhabitable water quality before, such as when an ammonia spill in San Pedro Creek killed more than 5,000 fish last July. This time, however, the fish floating lifeless in the downtown waterway were the result of temperatures in their habitat remaining below 50 degrees for a prolonged period, SARA of