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Pastimes : FISH FARMS NEED TO BE THE SIZE OF COUNTRIES -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maceng2 who wrote (67)	1/29/2004 12:46:28 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 405

Interesting. There was a big fish kill in Australia after torrential rains. It was put down to "shock" or something. Now we have one in South Africa, pesticides are suspected.. sabcnews.com No explanation on death of fish at Kruger Park January 29, 2004, 03:23 PM Many have welcomed the heavy downpours of the past week in Limpopo province. But the Olifants River in Kruger Park near Phalaborwa is experiencing a devastating phenomenon with thousands of dead fish being washed onto its banks. Rangers say it is the worst they have seen in years. "When we arrived here we found a lot of fish dead along the banks of this river and we started counting them. I think for about 2km approximately 1 200 fish and from there we decided to stop counting them any more cause they were too many," said Evans Mkansi, Kruger Park's Assistant Ranger. Rangers suspect heavy rains of the past week to have washed silt with pesticides from a nearby water board into the river. "I just opened and found a lot of silt on it so we assume it might be the cause of death because if there is mud then it means the fish cannot breath, they then suffocate," added Mkansi. Water samples have been taken for testing, although there have been no reports of any bird species dying as a result. The cause for the phenomenon is not certain at this stage.