A huge ‘carpet’ of dead fish floats off the west coast of France and has already alarmed Paris, which yesterday ordered an investigation into the massacre in the Bay of Biscay.
The giant white patch in the Atlantic Ocean – made up of carcasses of blue whiting, a cod subspecies – covers an area of approximately 3,000 square meters. These are over 100,000 dead fish, reports the Guardian: caught by the Dutch maxi fishing boat FV Margiris, the second largest in the world, and then ended up back in the sea on Thursday due to the breaking of one of the boat’s nets.
The discovery was made by the NGO Sea Shepherd, which first published the images of the carcasses, and the explanation came from the Pelagic Freezer-Trawler Association (PFA), the industry association that represents the ship’s owner. The PFA said it was a “very rare event”, noting that, “in line with EU law, the incident was recorded in the ship’s logbook and reported to the flag state authorities of the ship. ship, Lithuania “. The amount of dead fish, he added, will be deducted from the ship’s altitude.
“I asked for an administrative investigation,” French Minister of the Sea Annick Girardin told the media, describing the images published by Sea Shepherd as “shocking”. “The shipowner recognized an accident on board”, added the minister referring to the company that owns the fishing boat, Parleviliet & Van der Plas.
Source: Ansa
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