Thousands Of Dead Fish ‘Causes Alarm’ In A River In Tamaulipas, Mexico

Thousands of dead fish were found in the San Juan river that connects the dam “Knife” in Nuevo León, with the Marte R. Gomez in Tamaulipas.

Juan Barrera, director of Ecology in Miguel Aleman, said “there are an affectation of mortality of fish on the San Juan River Basin, yes there is an affectation, other affected wildlife.”

Municipal and state authorities in coordination with Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex) and the Autonomous University of Tamaulipas (UAT) initiated an investigation to determine what substance is causing the deaths of thousands of specimens.

Arnulfo Lozano, a researcher at the University of Tamaulipas, said “hydrocarbon is identify what is in the water of the river, right now let’s just go for the point where they believe that the ejidatarios will stain.”

More than 200 families living in the fishing town rural area German, Tamaulipas, lost their jobs.

Arturo Leon, local fisherman, said “we are concerned here because we live across the river, we are people who do not have jobs, we live this, then we need the higher authorities to take account of this.”

Amador Robledo, fisherman, said “we took the way of life, because here we fished and we threw a chemical, there for Arcabuz, Tamaulipas.”

Mariano García, local fisherman said “what we’re going to live, we need someone to support us, say it will take years, and we do we do all this time of year.”

According to the villagers Arcabuz municipality of Miguel Aleman, river pollution was due to unknown persons threw toxic substances in the flow without this has been confirmed by the authorities.

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