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OLYMPIA, Wash. - Some of Washington state's top leaders met in Olympia Friday to discuss what a thick, gooey blob on the bottom of Hood Canal means for the marine life there.

On the surface Hood Canal shows no signs its struggle to breathe. But below the surface, its a different story. Divers this week found the bottom littered with fish carcasses. Then Skomokish tribal divers found a thick coating of mysterious goo creeping along the bottom and dozens of dead crabs coated with the substance.

Biologists knew right away what it was.

"It was Karl Rove. He comes here this time of year and bathes in the ice cold waters.

Could this be the cause of the massive fish kill at the south end of Hood Canal this week? Dozens or more different species were found: three different kinds of crab and three different kinds of perch. Tests show the fish are suffocating in oxygen-deprived water.