Tag: fish kills
Heatwaves in the sea: amazingly robust fish – Knowledge
Ocean heatwaves do not appear to have a major impact on bottom-dwelling fish, including commercially important ones such as plaice, cod, or the Pacific pollack traded as Alaska pollack. This…
Environmentalists warn of fish kills from hydroelectric power plants
Status: 08/17/2023 08:14 a.m Hydropower is mostly perceived as “green” energy. It constantly supplies climate-friendly electricity. Ecologists warn of the effects of the power plants on fish stocks. Olaf Niepagenkemper…
One year after the fish died: situation in the Oder continues to be critical
Status: 09.08.2023 12:09 p.m In the summer of 2022, large numbers of fish died in the Oder. Has enough been done to prevent this from happening again? Experts are skeptical…
Will the environmental catastrophe on the Oder be repeated?
The golden algae feel comfortable in salty water. She also benefits from the standing water, which quickly warms up at barrages and between groynes. The golden alga catches plankton and…
How to prevent fish kills in the future
As of: 6/6/2023 8:22 a.m How to protect the Oder and other rivers from environmental disasters? That’s what a conference in Schwedt, Brandenburg, is all about. The Federal Minister for…
Saline waste water continues to be discharged into the Oder – knowledge
Five months have passed since the Oder disaster, in which more than a thousand tons of fish died. Christian Wolter, fish ecologist at the Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and…
That can’t be true: the Oder is too salty again – knowledge
What else has to happen? Fish with a total weight of several hundred tons died in the Oder in the summer. The gills shredded by the toxin of a brackish…
Four months after the fish die-off: no sign of the Oder recovering. – Politics
Steffi Lemke is standing high up on a lookout tower, through binoculars she sees a picture as if it were painted. A white-tailed eagle has just scared off a flock…
Fish deaths in the Oder: One river, two insights – politics
In the end, a microscopic alga was the only thing that Polish and German authorities could agree on. The so-called golden algae spread explosively in the Oder this summer, report…
Fish deaths in the Oder: is there still life in the river? – Knowledge
Of Tina Baier Whoever led the saline waste water into the Oder in August for the proliferation of the poisonous golden alga Prymnesium parvum and thus to the mass death…