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Dabou: Mysterious death of several fish
Families intoxicated, dogs die
Abidjan affected
Published June 5, 2013
By Norbert N'Kaka, Source Evening info
On the lagoon front Dabou, about 50 km long, it was discovered several dead fish for a few days. Families who consumed suffer from food poisoning. We visited the villages concerned and families affected by this phenomenon, Monday, June 3, 2013. Our report.
Monday, June 3, 2013, following a call that came to us from Pass lakeside village located 2 km from Dabou, citing an ecological phenomenon with several dead fish lying on the lagoon side, we go there we are. But along the way, it is our Bastos (a district of the city) a family of seven victims of poisoning for consuming fish and shrimp, had almost died the day before.
Considering it very disturbing information, we immediately realize the Bastos, specifically at Mr. Ouattara Ben, IT Manager at Drenet Dabou. The members of that family are totally weakened by diarrhea and vomiting. "We were very afraid yesterday (note, Sunday), especially for my wife and three children, very bad shape. I had to drive to the hospital hastily, "said Ouattara.
Obviously, the pale face of his wife and punctured cheeks of her children, extended to all living testament to the woes this family. "It's Friday, May 31 that my wife went to the landing where she bought fish and shrimp it was then prepared. Around 22, my family consists of 7 people suffered food poisoning and all the household was later found in the general hospital, "recalls the head of the family before we hit the road the pier located just 500 meters.
The scene once noisy and teeming with people, rather they are rows canoes available to us, except for a few isolated fishermen as we approach. One that we question reassures us and is the origin of the drama. "I'm in the business of fishing Dabou since 1989. This phenomenon is not new. It happens every year during the period of drought when the fact of warming the lagoon bottom, some species die of suffocation. The master, catfish, skate, pike ... are the most affected by this phenomenon disappears with heavy rains. But this year is a disaster because the phenomenon which runs from mid-April and continues decimating fish, despite the heavy rains, "he laments. But another fisherman, the origin is of an industrial nature.
Severe diarrhea dogs die ...
"I think it is the agro-industrial facilities (Hevea, oil palm, banana) that are the real drama. They sometimes use toxic chemicals. After the first rains, the water trickling carry these toxic products to the lagoon, which then kill fish and other seafood. What are the consequences of pollution, "he says. A 11 H, we come to pass.
At the edge of the lagoon, the smell is overpowering and huge dead fish are hooked to the surrounding grass. "When you get here at 6 am, you have tears in my eyes, because there are thousands of fish of all kinds and all sizes that float on the lagoon waiting to be swept along on the shore by the waves. It is a true Apocalypse, ecological and food risk that we live. We are fishermen and live only for this activity. We can not bear to see such resources disappear without being able to do something.
What will we survive now? , "Asks the teacher Lath, visibly bruised, before giving us his version of the origin of this phenomenon. "This is natural because he usually is caused by the meeting of hot and cold water at the lagoon. What we call language Adioukrou "Midj Gbagba." During the month of May, very temporary phenomenon, does not cause as much damage as this year. But worse, those who consume dead fish are heavily intoxicated, unlike previous years. This is why we say that the origin of this evil must be elsewhere, "says Lath.
Actually Pass Agnero Sebastian and his family and Miss D?h Name, student, have borne the brunt of these fish. "On Saturday, May 25, 2013, my children and I ate fish from the lagoon, and since then, we severe diarrhea. My three dogs who ate the remains of the fish died the next day. A Boubouri village located 8 km on the coast, many families would be affected by contaminated fish. Clearly, these are the villages of Layo, N'Gatty, Gbougbo, Allaba, Pass, Mompoyem, Bodou and to a lesser extent Toupah, which are strongly affected by the phenomenon, "we advised our interlocutor. According to several sources, the problem fish are sold on the local market Dabou, including the railway station and the villages of Central Market
Of Abidjan served markets
. "Taking advantage of this ecological disaster, some rogue fishermen seem to be rubbing their hands. Very early in the morning, they go to the lagoon to collect thousands of dead fish that carry on the local market to sell at low prices to traders coming from Abidjan. These in turn flood the markets of Yopougon and Treichville Adjam? of these highly toxic products ", says a very bitter person.
Market Dabou, around 15 pm, we mean that shopping Saturday, June 1, 2013, a patrol agents from the Department of Animal Production and Fisheries Research, toured the scene to enter several baskets of contaminated fish. "We can not sell it here because if people fishing catch you, it's bad for you. A griot is the same happened in the market, the first Saturday in June to tell us not to eat fish from the lagoon, "says a vegetable vendor.
A 17 H, to the Departmental Department of Animal Production and Fish Resources, responsible, Ms. Ebouho Akissi, the question of what is the origin of the ecological disaster, said: "We are aware of this phenomenon strange that began this year Jacqueville in April. We immediately organized visits to places concerned including Gbogbo, Pass, Layo, Bouboury.
According to the explanations collected from residents and fishermen, it would be a cyclical phenomenon caused by thermal shock that is to say, the meeting of the warm current and cold current. But this year, the situation is more tragic as it lasts. Unfortunately, we do not have effective means to determine the exact causes of the ecological crisis.
We therefore informed the hierarchy that dispatched a team Ciapol (note, Ivorian pollution Centre) and another INHP, who made contributions. We await the results of their analyzes. In any event, we put together a team patrolling in different markets, to seize the dead fish that fishermen crooked flow markets. I ask people to reassure importantly, it would be risky to speak of contaminated or poisoned "fish, she defuses the situation. But the least we can say, people refrain from eating fresh fish Dabou since the announcement of this phenomenon. So the rush of imported meat and fish.
Norbert Nkaka (A DABOU)
http://www.linfodrome.com/index.php...lusieurs-poissons&catid=10:societe&Itemid=112
Dabou: Mysterious death of several fish
Families intoxicated, dogs die
Abidjan affected
Published June 5, 2013
By Norbert N'Kaka, Source Evening info
On the lagoon front Dabou, about 50 km long, it was discovered several dead fish for a few days. Families who consumed suffer from food poisoning. We visited the villages concerned and families affected by this phenomenon, Monday, June 3, 2013. Our report.
Monday, June 3, 2013, following a call that came to us from Pass lakeside village located 2 km from Dabou, citing an ecological phenomenon with several dead fish lying on the lagoon side, we go there we are. But along the way, it is our Bastos (a district of the city) a family of seven victims of poisoning for consuming fish and shrimp, had almost died the day before.
Considering it very disturbing information, we immediately realize the Bastos, specifically at Mr. Ouattara Ben, IT Manager at Drenet Dabou. The members of that family are totally weakened by diarrhea and vomiting. "We were very afraid yesterday (note, Sunday), especially for my wife and three children, very bad shape. I had to drive to the hospital hastily, "said Ouattara.
Obviously, the pale face of his wife and punctured cheeks of her children, extended to all living testament to the woes this family. "It's Friday, May 31 that my wife went to the landing where she bought fish and shrimp it was then prepared. Around 22, my family consists of 7 people suffered food poisoning and all the household was later found in the general hospital, "recalls the head of the family before we hit the road the pier located just 500 meters.
The scene once noisy and teeming with people, rather they are rows canoes available to us, except for a few isolated fishermen as we approach. One that we question reassures us and is the origin of the drama. "I'm in the business of fishing Dabou since 1989. This phenomenon is not new. It happens every year during the period of drought when the fact of warming the lagoon bottom, some species die of suffocation. The master, catfish, skate, pike ... are the most affected by this phenomenon disappears with heavy rains. But this year is a disaster because the phenomenon which runs from mid-April and continues decimating fish, despite the heavy rains, "he laments. But another fisherman, the origin is of an industrial nature.
Severe diarrhea dogs die ...
"I think it is the agro-industrial facilities (Hevea, oil palm, banana) that are the real drama. They sometimes use toxic chemicals. After the first rains, the water trickling carry these toxic products to the lagoon, which then kill fish and other seafood. What are the consequences of pollution, "he says. A 11 H, we come to pass.
At the edge of the lagoon, the smell is overpowering and huge dead fish are hooked to the surrounding grass. "When you get here at 6 am, you have tears in my eyes, because there are thousands of fish of all kinds and all sizes that float on the lagoon waiting to be swept along on the shore by the waves. It is a true Apocalypse, ecological and food risk that we live. We are fishermen and live only for this activity. We can not bear to see such resources disappear without being able to do something.
What will we survive now? , "Asks the teacher Lath, visibly bruised, before giving us his version of the origin of this phenomenon. "This is natural because he usually is caused by the meeting of hot and cold water at the lagoon. What we call language Adioukrou "Midj Gbagba." During the month of May, very temporary phenomenon, does not cause as much damage as this year. But worse, those who consume dead fish are heavily intoxicated, unlike previous years. This is why we say that the origin of this evil must be elsewhere, "says Lath.
Actually Pass Agnero Sebastian and his family and Miss D?h Name, student, have borne the brunt of these fish. "On Saturday, May 25, 2013, my children and I ate fish from the lagoon, and since then, we severe diarrhea. My three dogs who ate the remains of the fish died the next day. A Boubouri village located 8 km on the coast, many families would be affected by contaminated fish. Clearly, these are the villages of Layo, N'Gatty, Gbougbo, Allaba, Pass, Mompoyem, Bodou and to a lesser extent Toupah, which are strongly affected by the phenomenon, "we advised our interlocutor. According to several sources, the problem fish are sold on the local market Dabou, including the railway station and the villages of Central Market
Of Abidjan served markets
. "Taking advantage of this ecological disaster, some rogue fishermen seem to be rubbing their hands. Very early in the morning, they go to the lagoon to collect thousands of dead fish that carry on the local market to sell at low prices to traders coming from Abidjan. These in turn flood the markets of Yopougon and Treichville Adjam? of these highly toxic products ", says a very bitter person.
Market Dabou, around 15 pm, we mean that shopping Saturday, June 1, 2013, a patrol agents from the Department of Animal Production and Fisheries Research, toured the scene to enter several baskets of contaminated fish. "We can not sell it here because if people fishing catch you, it's bad for you. A griot is the same happened in the market, the first Saturday in June to tell us not to eat fish from the lagoon, "says a vegetable vendor.
A 17 H, to the Departmental Department of Animal Production and Fish Resources, responsible, Ms. Ebouho Akissi, the question of what is the origin of the ecological disaster, said: "We are aware of this phenomenon strange that began this year Jacqueville in April. We immediately organized visits to places concerned including Gbogbo, Pass, Layo, Bouboury.
According to the explanations collected from residents and fishermen, it would be a cyclical phenomenon caused by thermal shock that is to say, the meeting of the warm current and cold current. But this year, the situation is more tragic as it lasts. Unfortunately, we do not have effective means to determine the exact causes of the ecological crisis.
We therefore informed the hierarchy that dispatched a team Ciapol (note, Ivorian pollution Centre) and another INHP, who made contributions. We await the results of their analyzes. In any event, we put together a team patrolling in different markets, to seize the dead fish that fishermen crooked flow markets. I ask people to reassure importantly, it would be risky to speak of contaminated or poisoned "fish, she defuses the situation. But the least we can say, people refrain from eating fresh fish Dabou since the announcement of this phenomenon. So the rush of imported meat and fish.
Norbert Nkaka (A DABOU)
http://www.linfodrome.com/index.php...lusieurs-poissons&catid=10:societe&Itemid=112