tons of dead fish due to lack of oxygen following human construction?
A sea of dead fish. On February 1, around 10 tonnes of herring were found floating in the Kolgrafafjörður, a small fjord on the Snæfellsnes peninsula in western Iceland, reports the daily Morgunbladid. The event, if it turns out to be most impressive, is not in reality the first: on December 000, 30 tonnes of this species living in schools - not far from a billion individuals - had perished in the same place and identically.
How to explain this hecatomb? The analyzes carried out on the first stock concluded that there was a lack of oxygen in the water. Experts believe that these shortcomings may have been caused by the construction of a bridge, built in 2004 to cross the fjord instead of bypassing it, which would have narrowed the entrance to the creek by causing the land to advance over the sea .
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