Massive fish kills occurring along the Tebicuary River in Paraguay |

In little over a month they met at least three complaints about the strange death of several fish species, both on the coasts of Tebicuary river and rice opened by channels. Nobody knows anything.

Since December last residents of various districts of the Department of Missions have denounced the massive fish kill, for unknown reasons.

What we do know, at first glance, is floating schools while at the edge of the rice fields and on the banks of Tebicuary. But until now no one knows, no one investigated nothing in the Ministry of Environment (Seam).

“We have received no complaints here in this direction,” said Dario Mandelburger, director of Fisheries Seam. The Ing. David Fariña, Water Resources of the same secretariat, also apologized and said he had no information on the strange death of fish.

Fumigation. In recent years the amount of rice in Misiones tripled, so the locals attribute the death to indiscriminate fumigation is done aerially Arazapé Area, Santa Maria, San Miguel, San Juan and others.

The producers of rice and Mennonites used -brasileños huge reservoirs that store the water pumped from the main water channel that winds throughout the department. “There are thousands of dead fish and a foul smell,” revealed a fisherman district Arazapé website Ñanduti radio.

He pointed specifically to the signature Agromana SA, which for two years on planes sprayed their crops, mining chemicals channels that flow into the river Tebicuary.

The NGO Alter Vida sending a technician yesterday that locality to gather information. “We have a person who went to the area to corroborate what the situation for a more responsible about what happens there opinion,” Victor Benitez, executive director of the environmental group said. Ing.

“Not the first time dying fish in water reservoirs constructed rice,” said Mariela Rivarola, uh correspondent in Misiones. “Every day you pass over my house the planes that fumigate the rice fields,” he added.

In December last images of a large number of fish floating in the canal of a paddy field, located in the vicinity of Route 4 Gral published. Eduvigis Diaz, 30 kilometers from San Ignacio, Misiones.

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