00:01Local residents and environmentalists sounded the alarm early in April on Chile's central coast after scores of fish were found
00:09dead in a lagoon, prompting authorities to launch an investigation.
00:14Large numbers of fish have died since April 1st in Zapalar Lagoon, part of the Laguna Aestero-Catapilco wetland in
00:21the ValparaÃso region, including carp and silversides.
00:25Javier Trivelli, president of the Lantra Foundation, which has been monitoring the rare phenomenon, said they initially believed it was
00:33caused by a drop in oxygen levels in the water.
00:37We spent two weeks thinking that it was hypoxia, that the amount of oxygen was reduced in the water.
00:44But when we got the opportunity to do the study in the water, when the P.G. Reyes was still
00:52happening,
00:52we could discover that the oxygen was good, and it was not fighting against life.
00:59In addition, other antecedents allowed us to intuit or think that there was a drop or excess of nutrients from
01:08outside the water that generated this mortal damasia.
01:12Local and national authorities, including the Chilean Navy, responded by removing dead fish from the water and taking samples for
01:20further analysis.
01:21The people of the area are quite impressed, I repeat, because the amount of fish, as I mentioned earlier,
01:30of seeing the 90% of the fish in mortality is an impressive effect.
01:35of seeing clear color pendant just the other day and that they actually showed the people of the river.
01:36Do not!
01:36I am brother-in-law garden.
01:39Yes?
01:41I try to walk from the large valley of the water and just be a traveller garden
01:42Last £4 million million and Luckily because the flag of the river isός,
01:46we want to see the accommodation.
01:46Yes, Gasiam Shandil!
01:49You
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