Poles hold “marches of mourning” for poisoned Oder river while anglers mobilise to save fish

Poles hold “marches of mourning” for poisoned Oder river while anglers mobilise to save fish

Source: notesfrompoland

8/23/2022

Poles hold “marches of mourning” for poisoned Oder river while anglers mobilise to save fish

“Marches of mourning” have been held in the Polish cities of Warsaw, Wrocław and Łódź amid the poisoning of Oder river, where over 100 tonnes of dead fish have washed up for reasons that are still not fully clear.

Meanwhile, a group of anglers in one region along the river have mobilised to save fish by transferring them to a reservoir with cleaner water.

In Warsaw, several hundred people gathered on Sunday on the boulevards of the Vistula, another Polish river, with many dressed in black. The protest remained quiet and sombre, as organisers had requested, with participants holding up the names of Polish rivers and black ribbons.

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