Hundreds of thousands of dead fish wash up in Santa Marta, Colombia

One hypothesis that handle the authorities is that dynamite fishing would be one of the causes of the tragedy. PHOTO COLPRENSA

Thousands of dead fish in Puerto Luz, one of the beaches of El Rodader sector or has generated an environmental emergency in the area.

 

Units of the Navy toured over a wide area of ​​the beach of El Rodadero and found dead species. “This death begins in Puerto Luz and extends to Aquarium Rodadero not know that happened but this is extremely serious,” said an officer of the Coast Guard unit.

 

The appearance of the “huge” dead fish stain alerted the residents, who were reported, and served well as their concerns to environmental authorities without finding in the latter a response to the problem

For residents of the sector is state of the dead fish has been presented for three days and denied that they have heard versions of explosives.

 

Of most concern to residents of the spa area and in particular, for tour operators is that species began to decompose.

No environmental authority

But what amazes residents, business owners and tour operators is the absence of environmental authorities in these cases Corpamag and DADMA.

 

“None of the aforementioned entities has responded, but the Coast Guard Unit of the Navy paid attention to what reported by Today’s Daily Magdalena, and came to realize this situation and there they came to investigate the institutions,” said one of citizens who reported the incident.

Arrival of the Guard

On Saturday at 6:00 am, four men of the Navy, sailed in search of fishermen assumptions used dynamite for fishing, but the picture was another, tons of fish floating dead and thousands of species were found.

 

Against the background of dead fish proceeded to call for this made Corpamag presence in the scene, but until noon was not known if they eventually did.

Causes

Some fishermen in the industry say the fish kill due to illegal dynamite fishing used to catch nice and cachorretas, among others, being the species most affected by blast waves.

 

According to the residents of Puerto Luz sector is the first time that an event like this occurs, because by this time the fish pass through the Caribbean coast “but never before had he seen such carnage like these days, the quantity to think it is due to a natural phenomenon. “

Courtesy of elcolombiano.com

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