Thousands of fish die from thermal shock as cold sweeps Greece

[Lovin Jesus]

RICHO LAGOON, GREECE (REUTERS) - Hundreds of thousands of farmed fish have died from cold in a lagoon in northwestern Greece after a heavy snowstorm crippled the country this week.

The dead fish, seabream and white seabream, began to emerge on the surface of the Richo Lagoon of Drepano Lake early on Tuesday (Jan 25) after temperatures in the water dropped to as low as zero degrees Celsius.

"The destruction is huge, it is estimated there are around 50 tonnes of dead fish," said Mr Ioannis Ouzounoglou, who works at the state-owned fish farm, after collecting some in his rowing boat.

"In all the last years that I have been recording and measuring temperatures in the area, I never expected that we would have such low temperatures in the minuses."

Countries across the region have been hit by a rare cold snap, including in Athens, which was blanketed in snow.

The fish's enclosure in the farm in the lagoon prevented them from swimming out to the deeper waters of the lake or sea to survive, scientist Konstantinos Perdikaris from the Department of Fisheries said.

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[Armor of Light]

So much going wrong throughout the world, praying we are hearing the trumpet and shout soon and that many repent before we leave, the bus is leaving.

 

[Tall Timbers]

It would be nice if they couldn't gathered up all that fish quickly and processed it for market.

 

[caligal]

I was wondering about that TT.

 

[Tall Timbers]

I was wondering about that TT.

The cold would've preserved them for a while, so there might have been time to do soomething with them. Don't know what type of processing facilities the farm has or contracts with... It would probably be easier to process the fish quickly for use than to deal with 50 tons or rotting fish later...

 

[Lovin Jesus]

So much going wrong throughout the world, praying we are hearing the trumpet and shout soon and that many repent before we leave, the bus is leaving.

"We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time."
Romans 1:22

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

The cold would've preserved them for a while, so there might have been time to do soomething with them. Don't know what type of processing facilities the farm has or contracts with... It would probably be easier to process the fish quickly for use than to deal with 50 tons or rotting fish later...

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh . . . think of the smell

Gulls are some nasty birds. And buzzards

. . . and bugs and every animal, bird, amphibian, and fish for miles around that'll eat any kind of meat will come

. . . and the predators that won't eat carrion will feast on the scavengers that do

. . . and the scavengers will spread the fish everywhere and make an even more ginormous mess

. . . and the pee and poo and blood and crud and germs from both "the quick and the dead" will be everywhere

. . . and once the dead fish are finished off, the scavengers and predators will turn on each other and anything else edible in the vicinity