Oh! Serious bummer!
I feel pretty fortunate. I was able to walk an ice-free pond yesterday for the first time since sometime back in early December. No evidence of any mortality.
The thing that probably helped me this winter was that we kept getting snow melts that brought a lot of aerated water into the pond through a culvert that is well under the ice. There was also enough runoff and melting that the snow on top of the ice kept melting and turning the top of my ice relatively clear.
