Thursday, August 8, 2013

MASS FISH DIE-OFF: Thousands Of Dead Fish Found Floating In A River In Hangzhou, China?!

August 08, 2013 - CHINA - Hangzhou yesterday morning sunshine, on the surface it is a stench Tong, these dead fish are mainly concentrated in the streets of Long Tong Southview Community and Heinisch tree village junction segments waters.




Dead fish heads are similar, is 10 centimeters long small carp. At first glance, the white one river. Clean river boat cleaning staff, are network network kept the dead fish salvage ship. "We have recovered two days cleaning staff, an estimated five hundred pounds." Yuhang Center for Hu river cleaning happiness said.

The main cause hypoxia or high temperature

Residents living along the river, said on Saturday saw a lot of fish floating on the surface of the water, but did not particularly care. Unexpectedly Two days later, I saw large tracts of dead fish floating in the river, dead people rotting scent as their noses. Although there have been dead before, but only a few only, never seen such a large area.

What causes such a large area of ​​dead fish it? Reporters contacted the Yuhang District Fisheries fishery management station.

Yuhang District fishery department staff analysis, the first few weather down, heavy rain, causing the surface to hypoxia. "Underwater mud in heavy rain under the influence of organic matter on the turn, causing the riverbed silt fermentation, absorb large amounts of oxygen, making the original anoxic water oxygen less likely to cause fish kills. Another possible reason is that the weather too hot, reduce the water level, water quality is not as before. "

Whether the investigation is still in pollution-related


Now basically dead fish on the Tong River have been salvaged, and only a small part of the "slip" floated away with the water.


Hangzhou Yuhang now reach a large area on the pond of dead fish (video screenshot).


"We are also aware of the situation just this morning, and immediately contact the relevant departments, salvage of dead fish, avoid secondary pollution. Moreover, we also mansions day capital from the beginning to the long reach of the tree community in this investigation work carried out temporarily found no sewage pipes. "Environmental Monitoring Station of Yuhang Linping Zhang Fei, deputy director of environmental protection," said Tong on the situation looks pretty good, no smelly black water situation, but there are now a common problem rivers that water body fat Green, eutrophication few days later, we will continue the investigation. "

It is understood that the sampling Yuhang water environment monitoring station has been sent to the laboratory testing to determine whether water fish abnormalities lead to death, there will be about 5 working days after the results. - NB. [Translated]





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