Five tonnes of fish and crustaceans have washed ashore over the past 10 days at Spain's Mar Menor, once a lagoon paradise that is slowly dying from agricultural pollution.
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A dead crab is washed up on the shore of the Mar Menor in Puerto Bello de la Manga, near Murcia on August 25, 2021. Thousands of dead fish have washed up on the shores of the Mar Menor, a large saltwater lagoon in south-east Spain. Environmentalists attributed the high mortality of the fishes to a lack of oxygen in the water -- Photo: Jose Miguel Fernandez/ AFP
2021-08-26 11:02:56
Five tonnes of fish and crustaceans have washed ashore over the past 10 days at Spain's Mar Menor, once a lagoon paradise that is slowly dying from agricultural pollution.
The sparkling saltwaters have spat out millions of dead or dying sea creatures on to sandy beaches which have long drawn tourists to the southeast.
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