Since last year, over half of the fish in the river have died, and Germany’s environment minister has said that Poland has not done enough to prevent a repeat of the incident. Now the Oder, which runs through the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany, is experiencing fish death en masse once again. Was this catastrophe doomed to repeat itself? Reporters from German newspaper Die Zeit and Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza looked for answers.
Warsaw, Aug 17 (EFE).- The decomposition of thousands of dead fish and shellfish in the Oder river is threatening Poland’s second longest waterway which has been seriously polluted by the mysterious mass die-off, an expert warned Efe in an interview. “The secondary effect of tissue decomposition is the release of hydrogen sulfites and ammonia that …