What killed tons of go fishing inside European river? Mystery deepens

What killed tons of go fishing inside European river? Mystery deepens

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Laboratory tests following a pile die-off of go fishing inside the Oder River detected high levels of salinity nevertheless no indeed indeed mercury poisoning its waters, Poland's environment minister said Saturday while the puzzle continued while to what killed tons of go fishing inside Central Europe.

Anna Moskwa, the minister of climate accompanied by every one one other accompanied by environment, said analyses of watercourse samples taken inside both Poland accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Germany revealed elevated sodium chloridetable sodium chloridetable salt levels. Comprehensive toxicology studies are still underway inside Poland, she said.

She said Poland's condition veterinary ability tested septet type of the deceased go fishing accompanied by every one one other accompanied by ruled not here mercury while the spring of the die-off nevertheless was still waiting for results of other substances. She said trial results from Germany had excessively not shown a high presence of mercury.

The Oder River runs from Czechia to the border inside the centre of Poland accompanied by every one one other accompanied by Germany earlier to flowing into the Baltic Sea. Some German media had suggested that the watercourse have been exist poisoned accompanied by mercury.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said Friday that "huge amounts of chemical waste" were inside all likelihood dumped intentionally into his country's second-longest river, causing environmental injury so severe it would lay clasp of years for the waterway to recover.

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On Saturday, Morawiecki vowed to do every one thing possible to boundary the environmental devastation. Poland's inside minister said a reward of 1 million zlotys ($220,000) would exist paid to anyone who helps track down those inside ask in remittance of for polluting the river.

Authorities inside the northeastern German condition of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania warned people not to go fishing or use aqua from the Szczecin lagoon, while the river's contaminated aqua was expected to stretch not here the estuary area on Saturday evening.

"The area of the go fishing die-off is shocking. This is a blow to the Oder while a waterway of great ecological value, from which it will presumably not recuperate for a lengthy time," said Alex Vogel, the environment minister for Germany's Brandenburg state, down which the watercourse runs.

The head of Polish waters, Poland's national aqua management authority, said Thursday that 10 tons of deceased go fishing had been removed from the river. Hundreds of volunteers were employed to assist congregate deceased go fishing down the German side.

German laboratories said they detected "atypical" levels of "salts" that could exist linked to the die-off nevertheless wouldn't completely report them on their own.

Morawiecki acknowledged that some Polish officials were "sluggish" inside reacting following enormous numbers of deceased go fishing were seen floating accompanied by every one one other accompanied by washing ashore, accompanied by every one one other accompanied by said place of set of two of them were dismissed.

"For me, however, the most important thing is to deal accompanied by this ecological catastrophe while inside a short hour dated while possible, since the natural world is our usual heritage," Morawiecki said.

His comments were echoed by Schwedt Mayor Annekathrin Hoppe, whose German town is located following to the Lower Oder Valley National Park. She called the contamination of the watercourse "an environmental catastrophe of unprecedented scale" for the region.

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What killed tons of go fishing inside European river? Mystery deepens