Residents gather, eat dead fish floating in barangay Ibo (Philippines)
December 18, 2010
The sad thing here other than fish having died off is what happened to those that ate the fish.
A few hours after eating the fish, which was cooked with vinegar as inun-onan for breakfast, Maribel was at the barangay health center complaining of nausea, vomiting and headache.
She told health workers she started to feel sick after eating the fish.
“Murag nang hugot akong panit unya ni init akong nawng (It felt like my skin tightened and my face burned),” said Mori.
Health and fishery officials yesterday started looking into the origin and cause of the fishkill in barangay Ibo, where thousands of fish have turned up dead.
…Pollution is the most common cause of a fishkill.
Tonnes of farm fish found dead
December 31, 2010
Tests on the fish and water samples reveal the deaths were caused by frequent ebb tides and the high densities of fish kept caged in pens,” said Vu Thi Nhung, head of the provincial Department of Natural Resources and Environment’s Environmental Protection Division.