Hundreds of fish turned up dead in Quebec. Environmentalists want to know why
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Hundreds of fish and other marine wildlife turned up dead near the shore of the Saint-Lawrence River. Conservationists are looking for answers.
Environmentalists and the federal government are trying to figure out why hundreds of fish turned up dead in a section of the Saint Lawrence River near Montreal.
A local organization called La Vigile Verte says water levels in the La Prairie Bassin between Montreal and Brossard suddenly dropped lower than they’ve seen in decades, leaving countless marine animals high and dry. A few weeks ago Vigile Verte director Gina Philie was walking the shores of the Saint Lawrence looking for trash to pick up when she had a terrible realization. She was stepping on hundreds of dead fish.
“There were big fish, little fish, all kinds of different varieties were dead,” she told Global News. “I said to myself ‘It’s not normal that there are so many dead animals on the shore.'”
After some steady rain, the water is higher now. Standing on the river shore in Leon Gravel Park, Philie that day it was so low she could have walked to an island a few hundred meters away that she’d usually need to swim to.
“There was no water at all here,” she explained.
Dr. Philippe Blais, a biologist and founder of Vigile Verte, called the situation “completely abnormal.”
He said says many fish got caught out of the water, both in the La Prairie Basin and other nearby bodies of water.
He believes waste and a lack of oxygen in the could have also contributed to their deaths.
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