Thousands of dead fish at Waipū estuary
11 Mar, 2021 05:00 PM
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Waipū resident David Lourie was devastated by the discovery. Photo / Tania Whyte
Reporter for the Northern Advocate jodi.bryant@nzme.co.nz Hundreds of thousands of marine life are dead and Waipū residents are being driven out of their homes by a stench described as rotten eggs and dead bodies believed to be caused by recurring algal bloom.
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The Waipū estuary lagoon, south of Johnson s Point, has been described as a dead zone with lifeless marine species including eels, fish and plants. What remains alive are said to be beaching themselves, gasping for breath in an attempt to escape the black oxygen-depleted waters, believed to be from trapped and rotting algal bloom.
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