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Fifty Tonnes Of Dead Fish Removed From Drought-Hit Portuguese Reservoir
Lisbon (AFP) Jul 14, 2005 Municipal workers aided by soldiers have removed 50 tonnes of dead fish from a reservoir at a dam in drought-hit southern Portugal which is at 30 percent of its capacity, officials said Thursday. The mayor of the nearby town of Ourique, some 250 kilometres (150 miles) south of Lisbon, said the dead fish starting being removed from the edge of the dam on Tuesday and the clean-up operation would likely continue for another two weeks. "There are as many dead fish as those which have already removed," Antonio Afonso told reporters during a visit to the dam, the national news agency Lusa reported. "If during the operation it is concluded that there still are too many fish in the reservoir, we will have to remove live fish," he added. The first dead fish started appearing at the Monte da Rocha dam on Friday. The fish are dying from a lack of oxygen and the high water temperatures caused by the low water level in the reservoir, environmentalists said. The dam supplies water to Ourique but its quality has not been affected by the abundance of dead fish, the mayor said. Firefighters and boats would be brought in over the coming days to speed up the removal of the dead fish, which are being buried in surrounding farmland, he added. Portugal is facing its worst dry spell since the 1940s. Virtually all of the country, 97 percent, is suffering a severe or extreme drought, according to agriculture ministry figures. The dry spell has hurt crops and led to the death of hundreds of farm animals because of a lack of pasture. The drought has caused over one billion euros (1.2 billion dollars) in damage and losses to farmers since September. Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Related Links SpaceDaily Search SpaceDaily Subscribe To SpaceDaily Express Weather News at TerraDaily.com
MSG2 Will Advance Long Term Monitoring Of Planetary Energy Balance
London UK (SPX) Dec 23, 2005This week's launch of MSG-2 will ensure that satellite images continue to be available to European weather forecasters well into the next decade. It also marks a new chapter in a long-term space experiment measuring the available energy that drives the weather as a whole, and helping to establish how much the Earth is heating up. |
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