Lamma residents woke on Monday to the stink of hundreds of rotting fish washed up on the shores of Mo Tat Wan and floating by the village pier.
Stunned by the types of fish being washed up — which measured up to two feet and include types like sea bass, cobia, and croaker — the residents concluded they have come from Hong Kong or mainland fish farms.
A resident said that the Lamma channel gets used as a dumping group for lots of things, much of which gets washed up on Mo Tat Wan. Former conservation director of WWF Hong Kong, Dr. Andy Cornish, suspects that the fish had been dumped by fish farms after possibly being killed by a sharp temperature drop. Poor fishies!
Source: SCMP
Photo: Sykez Tom, Flickr
