At the end of August, on the territory of the Yellowstone Reserve, there was a massive death of fish in water bodies, which is why some of them even had to be closed for visits. Ecologists and parasitologists have discovered a parasite called Tetracalsula bryosalmonae, the sharp increase in the number of which caused an epidemic of fish death. State authorities said they were able to locate and localize the problem, but recent reports suggest that the epidemic has spread beyond the reserve and began to spread along the rivers of America. The Jefferson River was most severely affected outside Yellowstone.
To determine the exact boundaries of the affected area, specialists study samples taken from the Madison, Galatin, East Gallatin and Vig Horn, Missouri and Smith rivers. If the parasite spreads over a large area with the flow of water, then an ecological catastrophe awaits America, as a result of which fish, as well as fish and birds feeding on it, will begin to die en masse throughout the continent, the ecological balance will be disrupted both on land and in water.
