The Dead Fish

Teo, March 6, 2014

The beach in Atlántida is usually very pretty.  The sand is soft and feels very good on your feet if you are barefoot.  We find shells and jellyfish and rocks and sea glass.  It is usually a very joyous place to be.

But on Monday, our mom was walking on the beach and she saw dozens of dead fish.  She wanted to know what this was all about.  So, she asked one of her friends who lives here and he said that sometimes the balance between salt water and fresh water changes and then the fish die.  The Rio de la Plata is an estuary.  An estuary is where a river goes into the sea and the salt water and fresh water combine.  There are fish that have adapted to the mix of water.  If the estuary gets too much fresh water or too much salt water, it could cause a disaster for the fish.

A few days later on Thursday, we saw thousands of dead fish scattered along the beach.  That night our mom read an article about it on the internet and it said that it was not the water that caused all these fish to die, it was because a fishing boat had dumped them overboard.

You can see the images of the dead fish below.

This morning we read that there were dead fish on the coast of Rio de Janiero in Brazil as well.  I think it's kind of bad that all those fish were dumped overboard.  They could be feeding people who need it.