Thousands of dead fish wash ashore in Haderslev, Denmark |

The eastern shore of Inderdammen is absolutely teeming with dead fish at five-six cm length.

Once again, massive fish kills affected pond. Small fish at about five-six cm length is in the thousands in the eastern edge of the water and in large stacks on the banks.

There are so many that the gulls have given up trying to eat them. Or they wisely also keeps away.

Environmental Guard Anders Skau moved Wednesday out of view on the situation. But he could not immediately come up with a clear cause of death.

-They have been lying for a while; between two and five days, according to he.

But there are still plenty of live fish in the pond.

-During the Diversion road stands the fish in dense, dense shoals. They are alive and kicking and is very near, almost side by side. But the oxygen content in the water is plenty for fish. I’ve taken some water samples and fish with. It seems as if the dead fish are only in half of the pond. A little theory could be that someone has thrown something that says “bum” into such a shoal. But it must be a large shoal, so I think the theory is a little thin.

The most likely explanation is that it is some kind of release. It may be a spill from an overflow. Or a citizen who has poured chemicals in a grate on a residential street.

Environmental Guard Anders Skau

Not seen before

It may take some days before there is an explanation for the many dead fish.

-I’m running enough past tomorrow or later. I don’t see anything that “calling” in relation to emissions, then it should be so thin that you can’t see it.

-Have you seen anything like this before?

-No, I am not here. Not only is how some small fish. So it must be, if there have been frosty for a long time, and ice has closed for the oxygen supply to a smaller dam, so they have been strangled, and it has not been the case here, notes Anders Skau.

A kind of spill

After having to be out and gathering information around the Outer pond Wednesday afternoon, he has not found several dead fish.

-I can not see dead fish elsewhere. The most likely explanation is that it is some kind of release. It may be a spill from an overflow. Or a citizen who has poured chemicals in a grate on a residential street. But fish also seeks away, if there is a spill.

Environmental Guard should now have sent his samples to study. That can go several days before there comes a result of analyses.

There have several times been cases of major fish kills in the pond and the fjord. In spring 2008 it was, for example, the disease that took the life of a larger amount of fish.

In autumn 2016 fish death hit the inner part of Haderslev Fjord. It was possibly a lack of oxygen.

Courtesy of jv.dk