Officials in Iowa and Missouri estimated that nearly 800,000 fish had died in waters that flow into the Missouri River.

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“I refer to this one as ‘the big one,’” said the official, Matt Combes, an ecological health unit science supervisor for the Missouri Department of Conservation. He added: “Calling something a near-total fish kill for 60 miles of a river is astounding and disheartening.”