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29 March 2024

Dead fish washed ashore on Saudi coast

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A large number of dead fish have been washed ashore on Saudi Arabia’s eastern coast on the Gulf and fishermen said the hot weather could have killed them, local newspapers said on Thursday.

Motorists and strollers in several coastal strips in that area saw dead fish dotting a long distance of the beach after they were washed ashore by waves.

“I think the fish died because of ongoing construction work, which involves burying a large area of the sea…….this has caused severe damage to the marine wealth there,” Alnadwa newspaper said, quoting Jaafar Al Safwani, Head of the Fishermen’s Society in the Eastern region.

But the paper quoted other fishermen as saying the death was apparently caused by the sharp rise in summer temperatures. They said they incident takes place annually during this time of the year.