Thousands of dead fish, crabs, shrimp, eels suddenly die in a river in Pangkajene, Indonesia

The last two days, since Saturday (11/08/2014) through Sunday (11/09/2014), residents along the river Pangkajene, Pangkajene District, Islands, South Sulawesi, shocked by the rare natural occurrence.

Fish, shrimp, crabs, eels, and the creatures that exist in the main river that divides the city district within 56 km north of Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi province, floats and dead in the water.

At the mouth of the river, Like a natural phenomenon of fish poisoning occurs around 13:00 pm Saturday. “When water bonang (pairs)” said Endang (35), a housewife in the village of Toli-Toli, Tekonglabbua, Pangkajene, Pangkep Saturday (11/09/2014).

Meanwhile, Bachtiar Mattoangaing who lived in the village about 3 miles from the river mouth Pangkajene, see eye to eye about the incident on Saturday at 17:20 pm. “Pas depleted rain, shrimp shrimp ride all, jump to the edge,” he said.

Until Sunday morning, the river is like Pangkajene harvest fish pond again. The fish are usually caught with fishing rods, nets, or the nets since yesterday afternoon, quite captured with a bucket, hand, or a glove that is created.

“I am already 60 years old born and raised in the village of Solo, but only this time the fish rising all, as requested arrested,” said Zainuddi, of Hamlet Solo, Village Bucinri, Bungoro, at the western end of the estuary of the river Pangkajene, Sunday (9/11 / 2014) morning.

Zain who worked as fishermen at the mouth of this river, since last Saturday, did not go to sea. He and dozens of neighbors, simply provide a simple nets to catch the tiger shrimp, mud crab, grouper, baramundi, and other estuary fish.

He admitted that this natural phenomenon in his favor, but he was worried, after this disaster, he will lose pencabariannya eye for a long time. “If the big fish are floating, this blessing, but this was the baby fish and Ambari (ebi) also died all,” he said.

Kekahawatiran also experienced fishermen Hasan (54) and Amir (42). Tolo-toli villagers, village Tekolabbua, sub Pangkajene, Pangekp also since the last 30 years of their livelihood on fish catches in the river.

“Maybe people who live in cities Mattoanging, Tumampua, and Jagong happy, because they are employees and vendors, but we have fishermen living from fishing in the river,” said Hasan, the owner of the butterflyfish shrimp on the back of his house.

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