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In the field of Boca de la Barra Township Puebloviejo , he was presented a new fish kills, where an estimated 15 tons of fish of small and medium – smooth species were on the banks of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta . Once this emergency Corpamag Invemar presented and activated the Range group.
Wednesday the Regional Autonomous Corporation of Magdalena (Corpamag) with the support of the Response Group Marine and Coastal Environmental Emergencies (range) of Invemar, conduct an inspection and analysis of the environmental emergency. In addition , the Corporation entered with fishing communities and about 40 people began last Tuesday harvesting of fish avoiding these generate a much more serious environmental and community impact.
With regard to the emergency in the municipality, Wilfrido Ayala, mayor of Puebloviejo, he said, ” we assume that causing the disaster is of such is sedimentation that has the Cienaga Grande and these days it has rained , although the sides of Sitionuevo a “gap” that allows you to enter sweet to the Cienaga Grande of what she is nourished by rivers flowing water there opened, this is not enough, because the rains remove sedimentation and cause disaster where are the fish without oxygen. “
” I reiterate I call the provincial government and the Ministry of Environment and actions concerning the Cienaga Grande are taken, public calamity and the municipality of Puebloviejo lives of Cienaga therefore declared the emergency declaration but do not have the necessary resources to resolve the situation, 95% of the population live in this water, to bring aid to all fishermen. “
Meanwhile the director of Corpamag, Carlos Francisco Diazgranados, reported that “fish mortality occurs due to lack of oxygen in the water, poor circulation freshwater flows that are required, decreasing water depth , heating, and stress of mangrove trees that lose leaves, reach the bottom of the swamp decompose and generate these types of situations that affect the environmental conditions of the Ciénaga Grande de Santa Marta “.
This is is part of the more than six such events that occur this year and because precisely in this area mirrors have very shallow water and sedimentation.
To address these environmental emergencies fish kill assures the Director of Corpamag which are allocated in the budget of the Corporation the resources necessary to enter the contest fishing communities with collecting dead fish.
Courtesy of elcolombiano.com
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