An aerial view of part of Southeast Alaska's Kensington gold mine. (Courtesy/James Brooks, Wikipedia under Creative Commons 2.0)
An aerial view of part of Southeast Alaska’s Kensington gold mine. (Courtesy/James Brooks, Wikipedia under Creative Commons 2.0)

On the morning of Aug. 9, state biologists discovered dozens of dead fish in a creek near the Kensington gold mine in Southeast Alaska.

Scientists from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game say their observations — and the fact that the die-off occurred downstream of a wastewater treatment plant at the large mine — suggest…