It looks like there’s a pretty apocalyptic event that is currently taking place in Japan. Thousands of tons of dead fish wash ashore. Check out the following reports about the matter below.
Japan water disaster
On Thursday morning, thousands of tons of dead fish were found washed up on a beach in Hakodate, located on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido.
The fish included sardines and some mackerel, and created an unsettling sight of a silver blanket that covered almost a mile of shoreline.
The incident has led to speculation that the release of treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant has wreaked havoc on local ecosystems.
However, officials could not confirm the cause of the mass death. Takashi Fujioka, a researcher from the Hakodate Fisheries Research Institute, suggested several theories as to why the fish could have died en-masse.
He said they may have become exhausted due to a lack of oxygen while moving in a densely packed school in shallow waters. Alternatively, they may have suddenly entered cold waters during their migration and succumbed to shock.
There have been multiple instances of similar occurrences happening along different parts of Japan’s coastline. However, this particular incident happened only three months after Japanese authorities began discharging treated radioactive water back into the sea, which caused a backlash from its neighboring countries, such as China and South Korea.
As a result, China has prohibited Japanese seafood and criticized the country for being “extremely selfish and irresponsible”. The Chinese Communist Party’s flagship newspaper, The Global Times, warned that this move could potentially open “Pandora’s box” and trigger fears of a “real-life Godzilla”.
South Korean protestors also attempted to enter the Japanese embassy in Seoul carrying banners that read ‘The sea is not Japan’s trash bin’.
Check our more shocking details about the matter in the original article shared by the Daily Mail.
More publications from MSM are covering the topic these days.
