US Edition"Thousands of Dead Fish": Great East Region Complains About Pollution
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Fishermen made this macabre discovery on Sunday 1 June, the day after major storms, in the river Ill, between Colmar and Illhaeusern, on more than 10 kilometres of stream. An exceptional phenomenon.
The Greater East Region announced that several of its partners and other structures wanted to associate themselves with its pollution complaint, following the death of several thousand fish in the Ill. Fishermen had given the alert Sunday, June 1st in the morning. An investigation is under way.
Thousands of dead fish were discovered in the Haut-Rhin region along a stretch of more than 10 kilometers of the Ill, a river that flows through Alsace. An environmental disaster of "exceptional magnitude," according to the Grand Est region, which announced on June 6 that it was filing a pollution complaint, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP). The alert was raised at dawn on June 1 by fishermen, the day after violent storms. On site, regional o…
The thousands of fish found dead in the Ill, downstream of Colmar on Sunday, June 1, would have died because of a lack of oxygen. This would be the hypothesis preferred by the investigators of the French Biodiversity Office. At the same time, the region Grand Est, owner of the affected section, announced to file a complaint.
The fishermen found thousands of dead fish in the River Ill, of which the Greater East Region is the owner and manager The Greater East Region announced this Thursday to file a complaint for
The Greater East Region is complaining about pollution following the discovery of thousands of dead fish in the Ill downstream of Colmar Sunday, June 1. Mortality is described as exceptional, as the Upper Rhine has not seen in 20 years, according to the Federation of Fisheries.
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