[guide.chat] millions of prawns stranded on chile beaches
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- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:03:05 -0000
Millions of stranded prawns on Chile beach
Millions of small prawns have become stranded on a beach in southern Chile this
week, carpeting a three-kilometre strand in red, local fishermen and police say.
The fishermen in the Coronel area, some 500 kilometres south of Santiago, began
noticing something out of the ordinary at the beginning of the week.
There were giant "red spots" appearing just off the shore, fishermen union
president Juan Gutierrez told AFP.
By Tuesday, the red mass had moved to land: "Millions of prawns were stranded
on the beach," Gutierrez said, shocked.
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"I've been a fisherman 39 years and have never seen anything like it before,"
he said.
Gutierrez added that he's seen more prawns clumping near the shoreline,
indicating another mass stranding could happen.
As residents removed the thick red spread of prawns, each a centimeter or
smaller, civil police have also arrived to take samples and investigate the
cause of this unusual phenomenon.
They will be looking to see "whether there was any trace or element" in the
shrimp that would explain why they stranded en masse.
They are also working to determine conditions in the Coronel Bay, including its
"temperature, electrical conductivity, and, especially, oxygen," environmental
crimes investigator Victor Casanova told local media.
So far, the cause of the event is unknown. Some fishermen are blaming a change
in ocean currents, while others suggest the culprit is a local coal-fired
thermoelectric plant that uses seawater as a coolant.
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