BALTIC SEA
October 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALLGERMANY Sweden and Denmark must do more to prevent nutrient-rich water run-off from their rivers and coasts killing thousands of fish in the western Baltic Sea, said an international research project. The official Baltic Sea international environmental watchdog The Helsinki Commission - tasked with investigating mass deaths of fish in the region in 2002 - has concluded that higher levels of nutrients from agriculture, urban wastewater and air pollution poured into the sea after heavy rain and snow the previous winter, creating algal blloms that ...
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