They're not gonna try to blow them up, are they?

In a news story from Portland's KATU news, Seaside, on the coast, has been innundated with tons of dead, stinky anchovies. The town's mayor says the plan is to wait for the tide to take them back out to sea. This is an infinitely more logical plan than the infamous story of an Oregon coast town in 1970 deciding to get rid of a beached whale by loading it with dynamite and blowing it up. All this succeeded in doing was to spread bits of the smelly whale all over the town. One large piece of blubber landed on a car, denting its roof. At least we can assume that in the anchovy case, it would be too much work to load them all up with dynamite.