Black coating on fish

Don't panic. It's just fracking fluid. Perfectly safe. Where was this?

Seems unlikely that sand / water (fracking fluid) would show up as black coating on fish.  May have been an offhanded stab at a joke but there's plenty of non-factual info. out there already, no need to add to the pot.  Fish would be hard pressed to come into contact with said fluid thousands of feet below the earths surface regardless of it's content.  On the other hand, fish in our beloved Lake Erie come in direct contact with thousands of pounds/gallons of chemicals poured, sprayed and otherwise applied to the surface of the ground surrounding the lake every year.  Lets not get waylayed by media hype and consider doing some fact finding before pointing fingers and ignoring real threats to our resources.

Were they spotted up like this or was the whole fish darkened?
 
Ill be back tonight to hear what your verdicts are. Ill be at work all day but for those who can , do some research. I seem to remember an article I read about the black spots on fish but cant remember it. 
 

No the entire fish was covered in it. A few of the bass had spots like that. But the crappie and rock bass where just full. You couldn't even see the white on the crappie and I had to put my hand in the water and rub the stuff off.

Yes it was meant in a light hearted way.My uneducated guess would be something they picked up in the sediment on the spawning beds. I wish I were closer to Presque Isle. I would stop and try to talk to a local WCO.

http://blog.pennlive.com/pa-sportsman/2012/04/susquehanna_river_anglers_worry_about_black_spots_on_bass.html
 
 

I looked around a little, and couldn't find anything definite.  It's sad how much misinformation the internet is filled to the gills with.  The first thing that popped up for me was a website on how black women should apply makeup. 

could be something like the micobacteriosus that is causing issues in the chesapeake and all its tribs
black spots all over, eventually kills most of the fish
 
btw...the fracking issue is very interesting
but bottom line to me is that no company would spend so much money trying to put out a good public image if they didn't have something very dirty to hide....and water and fracking fluid most certainly do travel through pore spaces underground
 

Call the XFiles it's the black oil with an alien plague virus in it sorry couldn't resist