Massive Fish Death in Fujian (Photos)
Posted Oct 07, 2009 by Lindsay Britney
From Netease
Since September 27, 2009, massive death of fish happened in the Huangxi section of Ting River(汀江) in Shanghang County, Longyan Prefecture of Fujian Province [China] . Millions of kilograms of more than half of various species of freshwater fish cultured by about 60 fish farmers suddenly died, causing a tremendous financial loss worth over tens of millions of Yuan. The cause for fish mass death may be because the river was polluted, or due to the eutrophication resulting from the extreme high density fish farming…No matter whichever reason is, the accidents have caused not only the disastrous loss to the fish farmers, but also the immeasurable damage to the local ecology. Ting River is known as the Hokka Mother River. The national key water storage project Mianhuatan Reservoir located at its downstream area. Ting River is the important water source for the cities/areas like Yongding of Longyan, Meizhou City and Dapu County of Guangdong Province. If the water is polluted, it will pose a great threat to the security of the drinking water of the people who live at the lower river area. Hope the concerned authorities pay attention to this kind of matter so that the things won’t go from bad to worse.
The stinks emanating from the rotten fish floating in the cages can be smelt some kilometers away.
Fish farmers who suffers the tremendous loss were removing the dead fish
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