Death of large fish and other creatures after pesticides washed into Moei River

[webfact]

Picture: Sanook

 

Sanook reported what they said was a sad event in the Moei River between Thailand and Myanmar in Tak province.

 

Extensive summer thunderstorms and resulting rain turned the water red as run off from adjacent areas turned the river into a seething and dangerous place for fish and other creatures.

 

Fish of many species were seen floating as some villagers tried to save species like the Mekong Giant Catfish that have been in the river up to 30 years.

 

Many other kinds of catfish and other fish succumbed along with prawns, shellfish and crabs.

 

They had tried to seek more oxygen rich waters to no avail.

 

Some villagers grabbed the fish to eat and sell. 

 

Sanook reported that the situation was made more serious due to pesticides being washed into the water from adjacent farmlands. 

 

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[RichardColeman]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

Some villagers grabbed the fish to eat and sell. 

Sometimes you want to just give up with the mentality of some people.

 

 

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

Sanook reported that the situation was made more serious due to pesticides being washed into the water from adjacent farmlands.

Just goes to show what the farmers are putting into the ground... and selling it to the public to eat.

 

[hotchilli]

50 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

Sometimes you want to just give up with the mentality of some people.

 

 

Yep... dead fish floating. lets eat it... Jeez.

[Tarteso]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

rain turned the water red

have I read this before in the bible? 

[xtrnuno41]

Still dont know after reading what was the problem.

The head says pesticides and in story they mention sediment from the red soil and therefor oxygen shortage.

IF the fish died on pesticides , i wouldnt eat the fish then.

Its a amazing Thailand still keeps pesticides which are already forbidden, long time in western world.

There was a time not long ago, they wanted to ban those pesticides, but still not.

Guess they also like to kill their own (and others in Thailand) people in agony, with  painful cancers.

[Aomelia]

Has anybody been in Isaan with the pesticide backpacks sloshing all over the operator No gloves No Mask so you can imagine the veggies almost as pathetic watching arc welders with 59 b sunglasses 

[salavan]

2 hours ago, hotchilli said:

Just goes to show what the farmers are putting into the ground... and selling it to the public to eat.

 

I stopped eating vegetables from the market also out of season fruit what with their pestercide weed killers and burning air pollution just too much