Tonnes Of Dead Fish On Japan Shores, Denies Suspicion On Nuclear Waste Water

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Over a thousand of tonnes of dead sardines and mackerel washed ashore in two locations in Japan last week and on Tuesday, leaving officials baffled.

While the cause of the die-offs is unknown, Japanese fishery officials are battling rumors that the incidents are connected with the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, which melted down in 2011. Japan began releasing treated wastewater from the plant three months ago as it continues to decommission the wrecked nuclear facility.

The first die-off occurred in Hakodate on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on the morning of Dec. 7. The sheer volume of fish that washed ashore created a silver blanket along a stretch of beach about a kilometre long.

Local residents said they have never seen anything like it. Some gathered the fish to sell or eat, the Associated Press reported.

In a notice to residents that morning, the city of Hakodate wrote that the cause of the incident is unknown and warned residents not to consume the fish.

Officials first estimated that at least 1,000 tonnes of sardines and mackerel washed up on the beach but that estimate was bumped up to 1,200 tonnes a few days later, according to reports from the Asahi Shimbun.

On Tuesday, more sardines, specifically Japanese scaled sardines called “sappa,” washed ashore in droves at the Nakiri fishing port in Shima, Mie Prefecture, on the southeastern coast of Japan, the Mainichi Shimbun reports.

Officials estimated that some 30 to 40 tonnes of fish died.

Mikine Fujiwara, an official at Ise Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Office in Mie Prefecture, said that the cause of the die-off is “unknown at the moment.”

“We’d like to sample the seawater at the site and examine it at a fisheries research centre to uncover the cause,” she told Mainichi.

 

https://globalnews.ca/news/10170005/dead-fish-japan-fukushima-daiichi-wastewater/amp/

[Popo 3,781]

 i really don't get the fearmongering and caterwauling over the nuclear waste discharge, China and South Korea's plants discharges way more Tritium into their own waters. 

[River 127,477]

It's Godzilla -1

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27 minutes ago, River said:

It's Godzilla -1

Oh no