Something's Fishy In Tokyo

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This story is brimming with potential catchy headlines. Why not just throw it out there and watch the extremists have their cockfight?

(By the way, hello to the horde of new pollies who have come out of the woodwork since any potential danger passed. Gutless Wonders each and every one!)

Dead fish found in Tokyo river

Here's the story:

Yomiuri Shimbun

Several thousand fish were found floating dead in the Tamagawa river in Fuchu, western Tokyo, on Wednesday night, police said.

After receiving a report at about 9:20 p.m. from a high school student fishing in the river, police located the dead fish in a 150-meter section of the river beyond the water gate of a drainage ditch leading from a water treatment plant in Kunitachi, the city next to Fuchu.

A Tokyo metropolitan government official said the fish had likely died due to a lack of oxygen in the water, presumably because plant personnel had temporarily stopped discharging water to replace some equipment."

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-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), January 06, 2000

Answers

Can You supply a Link?

THANKS

aLEX

-- Alex (alexcapr@yours.com), January 06, 2000.


"(By the way, hello to the horde of new pollies who have come out of the woodwork since any potential danger passed. Gutless Wonders each and every one!)"

How do you figure they're "gutless wonders? If one views evidence, processes it, and learns from it, then changes their behavior due to this new knowledge, that's smart, not gutless.

-- Grant Naylor (not@living.infear), January 06, 2000.


Puddintame....

I sure you're familiar with " Fair weather fans " who love to be on the winning team........

-- kevin (innxxs@yahoo.com), January 06, 2000.


Alex, try this URL:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm

You'll have to scroll to the crime-accident section to click on the fish story.

Grant,

I guess everybody is a polly now!

-- Puddintame (achillesg@hotmail.com), January 06, 2000.


Grant.....lets get specific. You're gutless, and brainless...should I go on.

-- GRANT (wherewereya lastyear@dot.com), January 06, 2000.


Here's for the pollies - Even though there's dead fish floating on the water, we can tell them its not safe to go in the water but what do you think they're going to do?

Mock & ridicule the people that tell them the water is unsafe.

-- Guy Daley (guydaley@bwn.net), January 06, 2000.


how could 1000's of fish, in a RIVER, die from lack of oxygen just because the water plant stopped discharging water?? we have 5 fish tanks at my house. the electricity has gone off in the past for several hours at a time; the fish just come to the top and start gulping (and that's in STATIC water)(though last month i bought battery operated air pumps for each one)

-- sarah (sarahlyao@aol.com), January 06, 2000.

Eutropia occurs when nitrogen rich water encourages the growth of algae blooms. The algae will suck all the dissolved oxygen out of the water at night and the fish will die. This could be the case in this situation, unless the climate there is cold - discouraging algae growth.

-- anon (anon@anon.calm), January 06, 2000.

Looks like they'd better call Godzilla... if pollution is that severe the there could be a risk of Hedora turning up again.

-- Matthew (mdpope@hotmail.com), January 06, 2000.

Grant; Don't get your panties in a knot and don't crow before the sun rises.

-- Michael Erskine (Osiris@urbanna.net), January 06, 2000.


I heard the squirrels were at war with the fish!

We know who won.

Pollies out there starting to wonder?

-- Gordon (g_gecko_69@hotmail.com), January 06, 2000.


Fish are more easily killed by industrial plants discharging large amounts of hot water into the water. The warmer the water, the less oxygen can stay dissolved. So fish and such suffocate.

The hot water originates from cold water used to cool down chemical or nuclear processes. After it sucks up the unwanted heat, it is discharged somewhere, like a river or lake, or best - holding ponds.

-- nothing (better@to.do), January 06, 2000.


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