10/13/2004: Massive fish death in India
 

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And you thought you had a bad job. This guy is collecting dead fish out of Kankaria Lake in Ahmedabad, western India. What happened?

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Pollution. But not the usual sort. They say "the ritual immersion of Hindu Ganesha elephant deity idols made from plaster of paris and chemical dyes contaminated the water during a recent festival."

And the next question is how many people are going to die from eating such an easily harvested batch of poisoned fish.

Ooooh the smell...the smell!! :greenface

Wait -- why are people collecting these fish? I hope they don't plan on eating them.

You've never smelled a fish lorry driving by in Vizag during July. There are worse fish than poisoned ones. :vomit:
- Pie, always vegetarian while in India...

Ganesh is the Hindu god who removes obstacles. Perhaps these fish were interfering with something...

The top picture was published in the Washington Post with the following caption. :confused:

:D :thumbsup:

Water needs to be oxygenated for fish to survive. If some chemical binds to and removes the oxygen, the fish will die.

If some chemical binds to and removes the oxygen, the fish will die.

Oh, no! There must have been a hydrogen spill!

Hmm... I guess you can accurately say, "These fish drowned."

You can't leave that many dead fish laying out in the water, they'll end up killing off even more animals.

I know I'm a narrow minded, boorish American, but ... wouldn't that be easier with a couple boats and a net?

Shifting all those fish with small baskets is like digging a hole in a mountainside with a pair of nail clippers.

Ah, I see you are familiar with Indian tunnel-boring technologies.

So maney dead fish! In my homeland, people thrown the poisonous pills into the river to get the fish.so i have seen this scene before.

throwing poisonous pills in the river to "catch" the fish doesn't seem very sporting, does it?