Tons of poisoned fish clog river in China's Hubei province

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Mon, 2013-09-16 13:44 — gl

Dead fish being cleared from the Fuhe River. Stringer/AFP/Gettyimages

cnn.com - by Jethro Mullen - September 5, 2013

Images taken at the scene this week showed thousands of silvery fish carcasses blanketing large expanses of the river and its shore.

The cause of the deaths, provincial environmental officials said, was the discharge of high levels of ammonia into the water by a local chemical plant in Yingcheng, outside the city of Wuhan.

"The environment of this region is already under extreme stress," said Ma Tianjie, who manages Greenpeace's campaign against toxic chemicals in East Asia. "The addition of these incidents will definitely worsen the situation."

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