Hundreds of dead fish appear on a beach in Alicante, Spain

Thousands of fish dead yesterday morning found the sand and the sea shore of San Gabriel, amid a stench that came to the area of housing, beyond the road, causing alarm swimmers and neighbors. This morning, the beach had been cleaned and presented a cleaner appearance than yesterday but still had some specimens of dead fish and the strong smell remained. Despite that bathing prohibition could be read on posters hung by the city, many swimmers have not hesitated to cool off in the sea.

Seprona agents of the Guardia Civil and biologists Coastal Ecology Institute was visited yesterday in the area and collected water samples, which was black, and dead to analyze specimens, while the City sent technicians Beaches, Environment and Police Local, decreed the precautionary bathing prohibition.

Initially biologists did not appreciate uncontrolled dumping pollutants and pointed to a natural cause, namely a loss of oxygen in the water by an explosion of phytoplankton (small miscroscópicas algae) due to heat and winds that prevent the movement of water and fish breathe. In the first results biological pH of water came standard, confirmed the mayor of the Environment, Luis Barcala, which went to the beach, where posters were placed temporarily prohibiting the bathroom. The council wanted to reassure neighbors discarding any chemical contamination “even while the wind will not change that color the water and leave some dead goldfish.”

UTE operators Alicante, the concessionaire cleaning fish collected in bags to take to the dump, where they were guarded until the Seprona authorized destruction once the exact causes of death are known. A machine went along the shore to collect seaweed and other debris , leaving it clear to help surfaced inert copies floating several feet into the sea.

The beach users, neighbors who discovered what had happened when they came down to bathe, like every day, at around eight o’clock, they were concerned about the causes. “They assert that everything is due to heat, but whether dumping is behind a boat. They say it’s not a beach front, but the residents of San Gabriel, many older people without means, we settle this little beach , and we just want to be clean. We are concerned that shut us forever, “pointed users and Antonio Ramón Pérez Escolano or. The group, with the president of the neighborhood association of San Gabriel Francisco Hernández leading the way, followed from the walkway to the beach cleaning. José González, a fisherman, likened the disaster with sewage outfall to be built after the flood of 1982 “and is full of holes, and 500 meters from the coast when it should be at 3,000 meters.” However, a technician Beaches highlighted the efforts of the City to maintain conditions an area of coast that was no beach to meet local demand and recalled that Annex Puerto regeneration slows water.

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