BALTIC FISH DEATHS
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLFOR ramblers strolling along Denmark's sandy west Jutland coast last October, there was a disturbing sight: hundreds of dead fish, crabs, shrimps and marine worms swept ashore. It seemed that the shallow Kattegat, the Baltic Sea's westernmost reach, had been poisoned by cyanide. But in reality, said a new report from Nordic environmental watchdog the Helsinki Commission, the deaths were caused by algal blooms stripping oxygen from this shallow sea, asphyxiating thousands of marine creatures. "A huge amount died," the Commission's Juha-Markku ...
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