Sanitation workers collect a dead pig from Shanghai's main waterway
on March 11, 2013. Nearly 3,000 dead pigs have been found floating
in Shanghai's main waterway, the Chinese city's government said on March 11.
Don’t mind the floating dead pigs; the water is still safe to drink – or so say Shanghai officials after removing more than 2,800 carcasses from the Huangpu River since Friday, the Associated Press reports.
The river runs straight through the center of the eastern China metropolis and is one of the primary water sources for the 23 million people that inhabit China’s largest city. Locals are concerned that the carcasses – many of which were found with exposed organs – have tainted drinking water, but the financial hub’s monitoring authorities have said the water quality remains unaffected. Shanghai residents voiced their concerns on China’s Twitter-like social-media site Sina Weibo, alerting the greater region of the gruesome scene, CNN noted. Business investor Xue Manzi hinted at a possible cover-up in a post on his account: “Huangpu River is the source of drinking water for more than 20 million Shanghai residents. And this horrific incident was only made public when residents started posting pictures on Weibo.”
According to state news agency Xinhua, the pigs have been traced to Jiaxing city in China’s eastern province of Zhejiang, where authorities have admitted to dumping the cadavers. The outpouring of dead pigs comes on the heels of a recent crackdown in the illegal trade of contaminated pork, according to the AP. China outlaws the sale of pigs that have died from particular diseases, but it was discovered farmers were offloading contaminated pork to slaughterhouses and subsequently ending up in markets.
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Mystery fish deaths at Congo
By JOSH GIDNEY
AN environmental disaster hit picturesque Congo Creek last week, in which thousands of fish were killed.
A Congo resident sounded the alarm on Wednesday after discovering multitudes of dead and dying fish.
Residents had reported a lot of weed floating at the water’s edge over preceding days.
Authorities such as National Parks and Wildlife Service (which runs the Congo campground next to the creek), NSW Fisheries, the Marine Park Authority, the Environ-
mental Protection Agency and Eurobodalla Shire Council were quickly alerted.
Some nearby residents and campers reported a strange smell which they said was not that of dead fish.
At this stage many of the fish were still alive, albeit struggling and gasping for air, so a rescue effort began.
NPWS campground caretaker Kerry Millard and others began collecting the survivors and releasing them in safer waters, and council staff erected health hazard signs.
Fish Kill in Baffin Bay has Resident, Scientists Concerned
Suspected to have been poisoned 60,000 fish bellies (Figure)
2013-03-05 06:35 Source: Southern Metropolis Daily editor: spider
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Southern News reporter Yang Zhenhua contracting Zhongkai High-tech Zone Lek Town rout fish ponds Dengjin Can these days with a worried frown. From the 1st night, the fish ponds of 60,000 fish all died, the loss of more than 30 million. Two years of sweat down the drain, let his tears. The night he was black plastic bags of suspected installed pesticides found in fish ponds, the Lek forest police station under investigation.
Shore found plastic bags dissemination Smell
More than 11 points on the evening of March 1, 2011, Dengjin Can, as usual, came to fish ponds patrol watching TV after one week. Huizhou temperatures dropped that night, from the high winds, Deng Jincan took a flashlight to view the fish ponds, suddenly found some fish are in the water near the shore of bounce, there is a big carp floating to the surface of the water, very strange.
Now the other day, more and more fish floating to the surface to reveal a white belly. He found amiss, hastened xiatangji the go view, by the shore of the waters, he also found a set of layers of black plastic bags, exudes Smell. Based on experience, he immediately reported to the police station Lilin police, the police came that night to receive a black plastic bag and a fish pond water samples back to do the inspection.
Dengjin Can Guangxi, working for many years in Huizhou. Yesterday, he briefed reporters on the fish ponds and 12 acres in size, he contracted at the end of 2011 and put 60,000 various fry all kinds of costs add up to more than a year, invested a total of more than 230,000 yuan. Originally planned to fish salvage sale recently, I did not expect this situation now, so that he lost more than 30 million.
10,000 kilos of dead fish every day salvage
Yesterday afternoon, the South is a reporter came to the incident fishponds far smelt fishy fish smell, a white layer of dead fish floating in the surface of the water on the shore. Laodeng yesterday and the day before, he respectively to spend money to hire someone to salvage dead fish every day away ten thousand kilos. The day before yesterday, he hit six net full of fish, found no one is alive, there will be more dead fish float.
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Dead fish litter the Payette
A one day survey reveals heavy sediment and over 100 dead fish in the lower Payette River. Heavy sediment could also harm duck populations.
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Extreme weather kills 18,000 pashmina goats in Ladakh
Harsh winter makes these mountain goats grow extremely warm coating that is six times finer than human hair and used to produce pashmina wool.
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Last year's unusually dry summer and this winter's unprecedented snowfall, the worst in nearly 50 years, in Ladakh's Changtang areahas claimed over 18,000 "pashmina" goats, the source of one of the finest varieties of wool that has put the region on the world map.
Changtang is a high altitude plateau in southeastern Ladakh, inhabited by Changpa (Champa) nomads, and known for its harsh and semi-arid weather with very little vegetation. The harsh winter makes these mountain goats grow extremely warm and very soft coating that is six times finer than human hair and used to produce pashmina wool. Its products including shawls, scarves, wraps, stoles are exported worldwide.
"While rains were scanty last summer, the winter witnessed unprecedented snowfall," said Dr Morup of Leh's district sheep husbandry office. Because of the harsh climate no other agricultural activity is possible and the fodder comes mainly from the natural vegetation. Lack of rain last year dried out the natural flora and the heavy snowfall in January and February cut off the region from the rest of the country, preventing fodder supplies. "The goats perished because of extreme cold and lack of food," he explained, adding, "We had supplied 13,000 quintals in November before the closure of the roads, otherwise loss would have been more."
Leh deputy commissioner Tsering Angchok told TOI, "Now, 1100 quintals of fodder have been sent in 62 trucks to the area where these animals are located."
read more at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/extreme-weather-kills-thousands-of-ladakhs-pashmina-goats/articleshow/18808657.cms
Mass fish deaths under investigation
Updated
Authorities hope to establish within a day or two why thousands of fish were found dead on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
Thousands of young leather jackets washed up in the Port Neill area.
Kirk Gibbons from the caravan park said it was a big talking point among locals.
"The three main beaches here at Port Neill there'd be, on the high-tide mark, literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds on each beach," he said.
"[It is] not a pleasant sight, you literally couldn't take a step without stepping on half a dozen or more.
"At least the birds had a good feed, there were lots of birds around there feeding."
Fisheries regional manager Andrew Carr doubted there was too much cause for alarm.
"If, for example, there was some sort of spillage in the water or the ocean, some sort of toxic chemical you would think every fish, every species, would be killed and that's why it would seem to be more environmental or natural causes," he said.
"But we're going to make sure and do a biopsy just to double check.
"I have been posed the question what sort of clean-up is going to take place. I don't envisage there'll be any type of clean-up - there's already quite a significant amount of decomposition of the fish - they'll dry up - they're only small and certainly there's a few birds having a field day as well."
read more at http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-04/mass-fish-deaths-under-investigation/4551008?section=sa
Farmed salmon die at Eastern Shore aquaculture plant
Snow Island Salmon blames it on cold weather
CBC News
Posted: Mar 3, 2013 12:55 PM AT
A number of fish at the aquaculture facility in Owl’s Head, N.S., died because of a recent cold snap, says Snow Island Salmon Inc.
The company could not say how many fish died.
The fish deaths have sparked concerns among residents who live in the area, but company manager Robert Taylor said the fish died because of the stormy weather over the past few weeks.
“We’ve had a provincial veterinarian; she was out on the site on Thursday. She took samples of the fish and it’s consistent with what we reported. The fatalities are weather related. They will confirm it later this week,” he said.
Chang ' an village pond of 5,000 pounds of fish a night deaths suspected caused by upstream sewage
Fish pond floating in a large number of dead fish
Wait for another month, careful breeding over more than 10,000 pounds of fish can fetch a good price. Just overnight, more than half of the fish emerged over the white belly. Faced with sudden changes, terrestrial liming villager Wang Xiaowei mingduzhen very sad. Money who wanted to sell fish in new houses, fish died, Wang Xiaowei dream has burst.
Fish die in thousands at Lake Keepit
THOUSANDS of fish have been found dead on the eastern shore of Lake Keepit, northeast of Gunnedah.
New South Wales Fisheries on Wednesday reportedly launched an investigation into the deaths Murray cod, yellow belly, bream and carp at the Manilla Ski Gardens.
The cause is believed to be low oxygen levels, but sample testing could prove inconclusive because experts believe the fish have been dead too long.
Fishermen say fish were also seen gasping at the surface and hundreds of shrimp, since cleaned up by local birdlife, were seen climbing out of the water.
The fish deaths occurred along a 2km stretch in the upper end of the lake known as “the forest”, which has been inspected by a NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) fisheries officer.
The DPI says the kill was first observed on Monday but only reported to the department on Wednesday.
A DPI spokesman reportedly says water above the kill appeared dirty compared to downstream and weather conditions before the kill were hot and dry.
That was followed by afternoon thunderstorms, with about 25mm of rain recorded in the area.
Those factors and a dam increase from 34.5 per cent capacity at the time to a current capacity of 40 per cent are believed to have caused low dissolved oxygen levels.
“No water samples have been collected because the delay in reporting the kill means that the results would be inconclusive,” the DPI spokesman is quoted.
He says it proves the importance of reporting fish kills as soon as possible to ensure fish and water quality samples can be obtained close to the time of an incident.
Significant fish kill on river Dodder
NEW DELHI/SRINAGAR: Last year's unusually dry summer and this winter's unprecedented snowfall, the worst in nearly 50 years, in Ladakh's Changtang areahas claimed over 18,000 "pashmina" goats, the source of one of the finest varieties of wool that has put the region on the world map.
Changtang is a high altitude plateau in southeastern Ladakh, inhabited by Changpa (Champa) nomads, and known for its harsh and semi-arid weather with very little vegetation. The harsh winter makes these mountain goats grow extremely warm and very soft coating that is six times finer than human hair and used to produce pashmina wool. Its products including shawls, scarves, wraps, stoles are exported worldwide.
"While rains were scanty last summer, the winter witnessed unprecedented snowfall," said Dr Morup of Leh's district sheep husbandry office. Because of the harsh climate no other agricultural activity is possible and the fodder comes mainly from the natural vegetation. Lack of rain last year dried out the natural flora and the heavy snowfall in January and February cut off the region from the rest of the country, preventing fodder supplies. "The goats perished because of extreme cold and lack of food," he explained, adding, "We had supplied 13,000 quintals in November before the closure of the roads, otherwise loss would have been more."
Leh deputy commissioner Tsering Angchok told TOI, "Now, 1100 quintals of fodder have been sent in 62 trucks to the area where these animals are located."
read more at http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/extreme-weather-kills-thousands-of-ladakhs-pashmina-goats/articleshow/18808657.cmsMass fish deaths under investigation
Updated
Authorities hope to establish within a day or two why thousands of fish were found dead on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.
Thousands of young leather jackets washed up in the Port Neill area.
Kirk Gibbons from the caravan park said it was a big talking point among locals.
"The three main beaches here at Port Neill there'd be, on the high-tide mark, literally hundreds and hundreds and hundreds on each beach," he said.
"[It is] not a pleasant sight, you literally couldn't take a step without stepping on half a dozen or more.
"At least the birds had a good feed, there were lots of birds around there feeding."
Fisheries regional manager Andrew Carr doubted there was too much cause for alarm.
"If, for example, there was some sort of spillage in the water or the ocean, some sort of toxic chemical you would think every fish, every species, would be killed and that's why it would seem to be more environmental or natural causes," he said.
"But we're going to make sure and do a biopsy just to double check.
"I have been posed the question what sort of clean-up is going to take place. I don't envisage there'll be any type of clean-up - there's already quite a significant amount of decomposition of the fish - they'll dry up - they're only small and certainly there's a few birds having a field day as well."
read more at http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-03-04/mass-fish-deaths-under-investigation/4551008?section=sa
Farmed salmon die at Eastern Shore aquaculture plant
Snow Island Salmon blames it on cold weather
CBC News
Posted: Mar 3, 2013 12:55 PM AT
A number of fish at the aquaculture facility in Owl’s Head, N.S., died because of a recent cold snap, says Snow Island Salmon Inc.
The company could not say how many fish died.
The fish deaths have sparked concerns among residents who live in the area, but company manager Robert Taylor said the fish died because of the stormy weather over the past few weeks.
“We’ve had a provincial veterinarian; she was out on the site on Thursday. She took samples of the fish and it’s consistent with what we reported. The fatalities are weather related. They will confirm it later this week,” he said.
Chang ' an village pond of 5,000 pounds of fish a night deaths suspected caused by upstream sewage
Fish pond floating in a large number of dead fish
Wait for another month, careful breeding over more than 10,000 pounds of fish can fetch a good price. Just overnight, more than half of the fish emerged over the white belly. Faced with sudden changes, terrestrial liming villager Wang Xiaowei mingduzhen very sad. Money who wanted to sell fish in new houses, fish died, Wang Xiaowei dream has burst.
Fish die in thousands at Lake Keepit
THOUSANDS of fish have been found dead on the eastern shore of Lake Keepit, northeast of Gunnedah.
New South Wales Fisheries on Wednesday reportedly launched an investigation into the deaths Murray cod, yellow belly, bream and carp at the Manilla Ski Gardens.
The cause is believed to be low oxygen levels, but sample testing could prove inconclusive because experts believe the fish have been dead too long.
Fishermen say fish were also seen gasping at the surface and hundreds of shrimp, since cleaned up by local birdlife, were seen climbing out of the water.
The fish deaths occurred along a 2km stretch in the upper end of the lake known as “the forest”, which has been inspected by a NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) fisheries officer.
The DPI says the kill was first observed on Monday but only reported to the department on Wednesday.
A DPI spokesman reportedly says water above the kill appeared dirty compared to downstream and weather conditions before the kill were hot and dry.
That was followed by afternoon thunderstorms, with about 25mm of rain recorded in the area.
Those factors and a dam increase from 34.5 per cent capacity at the time to a current capacity of 40 per cent are believed to have caused low dissolved oxygen levels.
“No water samples have been collected because the delay in reporting the kill means that the results would be inconclusive,” the DPI spokesman is quoted.
He says it proves the importance of reporting fish kills as soon as possible to ensure fish and water quality samples can be obtained close to the time of an incident.
Significant fish kill on river Dodder
A male Atlantic salmon is shown swimming in salt water.(CBC)
A number of fish at the aquaculture facility in Owl’s Head, N.S., died because of a recent cold snap, says Snow Island Salmon Inc.
The company could not say how many fish died.
The fish deaths have sparked concerns among residents who live in the area, but company manager Robert Taylor said the fish died because of the stormy weather over the past few weeks.
“We’ve had a provincial veterinarian; she was out on the site on Thursday. She took samples of the fish and it’s consistent with what we reported. The fatalities are weather related. They will confirm it later this week,” he said.
Chang ' an village pond of 5,000 pounds of fish a night deaths suspected caused by upstream sewage
Fish pond floating in a large number of dead fish
Wait for another month, careful breeding over more than 10,000 pounds of fish can fetch a good price. Just overnight, more than half of the fish emerged over the white belly. Faced with sudden changes, terrestrial liming villager Wang Xiaowei mingduzhen very sad. Money who wanted to sell fish in new houses, fish died, Wang Xiaowei dream has burst.
Fish die in thousands at Lake Keepit
THOUSANDS of fish have been found dead on the eastern shore of Lake Keepit, northeast of Gunnedah.
New South Wales Fisheries on Wednesday reportedly launched an investigation into the deaths Murray cod, yellow belly, bream and carp at the Manilla Ski Gardens.
The cause is believed to be low oxygen levels, but sample testing could prove inconclusive because experts believe the fish have been dead too long.
Fishermen say fish were also seen gasping at the surface and hundreds of shrimp, since cleaned up by local birdlife, were seen climbing out of the water.
The fish deaths occurred along a 2km stretch in the upper end of the lake known as “the forest”, which has been inspected by a NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) fisheries officer.
The DPI says the kill was first observed on Monday but only reported to the department on Wednesday.
A DPI spokesman reportedly says water above the kill appeared dirty compared to downstream and weather conditions before the kill were hot and dry.
That was followed by afternoon thunderstorms, with about 25mm of rain recorded in the area.
Those factors and a dam increase from 34.5 per cent capacity at the time to a current capacity of 40 per cent are believed to have caused low dissolved oxygen levels.
“No water samples have been collected because the delay in reporting the kill means that the results would be inconclusive,” the DPI spokesman is quoted.
He says it proves the importance of reporting fish kills as soon as possible to ensure fish and water quality samples can be obtained close to the time of an incident.
