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A mass fish die-off in Brazil’s Amazon River region has killed an estimated 20-30 metric tons of fish and other aquatic animals, following one of the worst droughts in Amazonian history.
On the night of Nov. 12, fishers from the riverine community of Igarapé do Costa, near the city of Santarém in northern Brazil, began noticing fish dying in large numbers along the Aramanaí Channel, a waterway connected to the Amazon River and home to hundreds of fishing families. |
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Over the following days, the situation worsened as the channel became blanketed with dead marine animals, Manuel Pinheiro, the social and environmental director of the Z20 fishers union, which represents the impacted area, told Mongabay in an audio message. |
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