Nevada marina deemed safe despite 100K fish kill  Associated
Press SHARE  By SCOTT SONNER, Associated Press  SPARKS, Nev.
(AP) — Most locals reacted like Rick Dinoso when he first heard
that all the fish in the Sparks Marina were dead — an estimated
100,000 trout, bass and catfish.  "All the fish don't just die,"
said Dinoso, 37, an assistant manager at a nearby tavern who
grew up in Sparks.  "That's a lot of fish," Wayne Weaver said
Friday as he walked the 2-mile loop trail around the 77-acre,
man-made lake with wife, Dee. "That's a lot of recreation lost."
Scientists say the massive fish kill was caused by a dramatic
drop in the water's oxygen content, which they say is not all
that uncommon. They believe it was triggered by a weeklong cold
spurt in December when lows hovered near zero at the former
gravel pit converted into a marina 15 years ago along Interstate
80 just east of Reno.  Though testing is incomplete, state
wildlife and environmental officials are convinced there's no
danger to humans or anim