The Baltimore harbor turned green on Friday as hundreds of dead fish and crabs rose to the water's surface in Canton, Fells Point and Locust Point, Maryland.

The Maryland Department of the Environment said it is all because of the weather.

"I noticed that there was just a bunch of dead fish all of a sudden," said Lucas Hayes, who works in Locust Point.

An MDE investigator saw at least 200 dead crabs and 100 dead fish on Friday, the agency told 11 News.

MDE said the fish kill is a result of low oxygen from a lack of sunlight.

"I didn't really notice them until my sister told me, but there's a lot, and they're just floating up on the shore, on the rocks," said Brittany Tremble, a Canton resident. "There's plenty of them."

Tremble and her sister, Empress, also noticed dozens of fish flo

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