Hundreds of dead fish appear in a lagoon near Cali, Colombia

A new fish kill occurs for three days in the lagoon of Charco Azul, east of Cali. Hundreds of bream, those marks, tilapia and shrimp were found dead, without explanation.

“Tuesday was a critical day. Fish peered to the surface, as if looking for oxygen,” says Rubén Darío Obando, security guard of the lagoon.

Meanwhile, Albeiro Murillo, Attorney environmental facilitators of the lagoon, warns that “should not be falling housing sewage lagoon, this could cause the death of fish.”

The director Wastewater Emcali Jose Ceron, said “these fish did not die on Tuesday. Environmental facilitators when cleaned the filter and removed the trash that taponaba, removed these fish already dead.”

Ceron added that “monthly clean the filter and the tube facing the lagoon, but obstructs the community. Lack Les environmental culture”. Amanda Manrique, fisher and resident of the sector for 35 years, said that “this is going on for six months and nobody does anything.”

Moreover, John Preciado, a resident of Charco Azul, says that “in the evening you can see a green cream and where it appears, no dead fish.”

Given this, Camilo Velez, head of water resources of Dangma hopes “that this week the CVC deliver the results of the biopsy of the dead and the fish pond sediment, to clarify what happens in this wetland.”

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