'Unprecedented' mass death of fish in Phu Yen
VOV.VN - Fish farmers in the south central coastal province of Phu Yen are seeing something grisly in the waters just offshore— the mangled decomposing bodies of hundreds of tiger prawns, grouper and scraggly lobsters.
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It is becoming one of the largest mass die-offs of fish and seafood ever recorded in Vietnam. |
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"It was so distressing," recalled one fisherman. "They were just everywhere. Every ten metres we'd find another dozen bodies of fish." |
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Last week hundreds of fish and seafood started surfacing on the waters and showing up in fish cages. Since then the deaths haven't stopped. |
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"This is just a massive, massive, unprecedented environmental disaster," said the fisherman. |
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“Tons of tiger prawn are dead, which sell for as much as US$67 per kilo,” he said. “The losses are staggering and piling up.” |
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