Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Almost 50-tons of fishes killed, poisoned dead fishes are sold to the market for human consumption

Chrang Chomres 2 sangkat chief talking to the fish farmers (Photo: Ratanak, Koh Santepheap)

50-ton of fishes died from the pollution. The dead fishes were sold to the market for human consumption rather than destroyed (Photo: Ratanak, Koh Santepheap)

One possible source of the fish death: polluted water dumped into the river (Photo: Ratanak, Koh Santepheap)

Wednesday, May 16, 2007
Almost 50-ton of fishes killed

Koh Santepheap newspaper
Translated from Khmer by Socheata

Pollutants dumping into the river caused the death of farm-raised fishes in the Tonle Sap

Phnom Penh city: Farm-raised fishes in the Tonle Sap river near Chrang Chomres 2, Khan Russei Keo, were poisoned and almost 50-ton of them died during the night of 14 May, the fishes are still dying as of now. Fish farmers blamed the death of the fishes on the dumping of pollutants into the river by the SKD winery company located in Kilometer 6.

With the increasing number of dead fishes, the fish farmers have dragged the fish pens from the western bank of the river to the middle of the river and to the eastern bank of the river to try to save the fishes. According to officials from the Sangkat Chrang Chomres, fishes in 17 pens have died at midnight on 14 May, this amounts to 47-ton of fishes. Fish farmers accused the SKD winery of dumping polluted water into the river. Un Chan, a 55-year-old group chief in Village No. 5, Sangkat Chrang Chomres 2, Khan Russei Keo, and who is also one of the fish farmers, said that fishes in 3 of his pens died, this amounts to a loss of 13-ton of fishes, the dead fishes were taken to sell at the market while some others are frozen to later sale. Un Chan added that it was not only his fishes which died, fishes in other pens died also from the polluted water dumped into the river by the SKD winery. The polluted water flows to the north and reached the fish pens, causing the death.

At the source of the incident, the death of the fishes brought rage among the fish farmers and they had to drag the fish pens to the middle of the river and along the eastern shore in the middle of the night. Not only the farm-raised fishes died, but the wild fishes also died and local villagers came in large number to collect the dead fishes. Following the event, the Chrang Chomres 2 Sangkat chief and the police chief visited the fish farmers and they were asking for the source of the polluted water. During that morning, the authority found the source of the foamy polluted water which flowed out of the SKD factory. The polluted liquid smelled alcohol, is hot and also contains potato residues. Nevertheless, it is not clear whether this is the source of the pollution which causes the death of the fishes. Only environmental officials could make this determination.

Reports indicated that along the Mekong and the Tonle Sap rivers, numerous factories are dumping pollutants into the rivers, these cause a serious pollution to the environment.

14 comments:

Anonymous said...

See, that is what happened when you
forced company to pay big bucks to
employees. They will cheated and
dumped polluted wastes all over the
places to cause harm to our
environment. Thus, to fix this
problem, we need to pass law to
cut employees salaries by 40% or so
to allow company to have the fund
to neutralize the toxic waste
before dumping it. This process
aint cheap.

Anonymous said...

1:13 that is a ridiculous argument. Firstly the companies are not paying big bucks and cutting salaries is stupid. It has taken too long to ensure that people are paid enough and you want to reduce the wages. No no no.

Secondly the companies make plenty of profit. They are perfectly able to pay to clean up their own waste. It is their duty.

Instead you should be arguing that the company pay out of their profit and not trying to reduce people's wages.

Anonymous said...

See what happened when your country is run by a bunch of IDIOTS.

Anonymous said...

Yes 2:20, we both agree that the
company should pay for the clean
up. But the money must come from
both side, not just one side.
Otherwise, we're going to lose more
companird. Then we'll all be in
deeper shits.

Anonymous said...

stop all the fucking bullshit!!!!

if all these companies doesn't need to pay for the bloody under the table money to all these fucking authories in all level from village chief up to fucking minister of mine and engery and fucking commerce for licence to run their business, not even the clean up the wastes the will have some more money to raise their employee salary.

Anonymous said...

In 10 years the forests gone, the rivers dead, and the CPP rolling in oil money deposited in Chinese banks.

Anonymous said...

The fucken SKD winery need to be fined and pay for all the fucken damage!!!

There not a single Chemistry department anywhere in Cambodia to take sample in the lake and river to be analysed daily for contamination!

AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave had been sleeping on the fucken job again!
What can I say? Cambodia had become the world trash bind and thank to AH HUN SEN Vietcong slave dictatorship!!!More to come...

Anonymous said...

Well, some members of the
FUNCINPEC used to do a great job
on preventing that type of
catastophy. I hope they didn't quit
their job or got fire. It will be
a shame if that happens.

Anonymous said...

Cambodian should sue Hun Xen and his family for what they did to the Country, for every penny they stole and sele out the natural resources.

Anonymous said...

listen all your dumb crackhead.
i didn't sign that treaty or order to block krt, or ordered th echink/yuon companies to dump shit on khmer land, it was ah chor yuon who did it on their own and put the blame on me. I am ah hun kvak how can i see or know how to read?
i wanted to run away but ah chor yuon threated to kill me and my family members. what can I do if each time i am forced to talk. ah hok lundee is yuan and how many times he slept with mi j'rouk my wife? all the time. it hurts me so bad to see mee j'rouk did with ah chor yuon Hok in front of my face. :( :(

Anonymous said...

And what court are you planning
to suit somdach Hun Sen in, 11:57?

Anonymous said...

INTERNATIONAL COURT, Block Head!
Where it will hang them for good!

Anonymous said...

Yeah, but the corrupted
International court don't handle
complaint from the public.

Anonymous said...

We, Cambodians, are very ashamed to have an uneducated prime minister like ah Hun Sen

Reporters have rights to ask any question to high-rank officials, either prime minister, in the world.

If ah Hun Sen (Kbal youn khloun Sat') told RFA reporters are insolent, so ah Hun Sen is very ILL-BRED and uneducated barbarian person