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How many lake disasters does that make this summer? Taihu. Dianchi. The season is young.
More here.
The story reads, in part: " A worker collects dead fish floating on Guanqiao Lake in Wuhan"
I read that as "A woefully unlucky SOB collects dead fish...".
Mike Rowe might say, "picking up 50 metric tons of rotting fish off the surface of a lake in the broiling sun. Dirty job."
I just say "EEEEEEEEWWWWW!"
Yicky.
My first thought at seeing the pictures is damn that must stink. My second thought was that I think I would avoid any fish products for a while. Who knows what they're doing with the dead fish.
Thanks, Shaun. One more thing for me to worry about. Perhaps they can grind the fish up for baozi:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070712/ap_on_re_as/china_cardboard_buns
More likely the fish might end up in "yu song" that you can enjoy with "man tou" or sprinkle into your "xi fan." Yummy.
Even in the great US of A, you should see what delicacies go into prison food and old-age home food. I once closed down a frozen fish importer/wholesaler who had defrauded my bank client of several $ million, and we sold most of its abandoned, unattractive product to a well-connected processor who told me that we would never recognize the fish product after he finished working his magic on it. Anyone looking for a career in food processing?
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Hey Will, check out this fish die out at the Hakensack River:
http://www.hackensackriverkeeper.org/newsletters/Summer2002/014_Summer_2002.htm
Did a quick search since I seem to recall seeing stuff like this in the States once a while.
Wow. How fantastically irrelevant. A heat-related fish kill in New Jersey in 2002.
How about this article in the FT instead. It's the Chinese who think this is a crisis.
It's just an example. Here in the States we hear news about fish kill (heat, pollution) with regularity as well.
Here's another one from 2005:
http://www.klamathforestalliance.org/Newsarticles/newsarticle20050804.html
“Heat blamed for Klamath fish kill” - conforms to a long tradition at the Herald and News - covering up for the failure of Klamath Basin agriculture to control harmful levels of nutrient pollution
Here're some stats from Missouri on fish kills from animal waste pollution from 1983-2007:
http://www.moafs.org/rivers/waste.htm