MADRID – The death of thousands of fish and crustaceans that has been recorded for several days in the salt lagoon of the Mar Menor, in the Murcia region, represents an “authentic natural drama” which is the “consequence” of “many years of lack of intervention and permissiveness of actions harmful to the environment “. The spokeswoman for the Spanish government said this at a press conference Isabel rodriguez, in response to a question about an ecological crisis that is of great concern to residents of the affected area, experts and environmentalists.
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The causes of what is happening are being studied, but it is feared that, as has already happened in similar episodes in the past, the determining factor is a phenomenon of anoxia (lack of oxygen) which would affect harmful discharges caused in particular by intensive agriculture in the area and causing eutrophication (excess of nutrients harmful to the fauna of a given ecosystem), a circumstance denied by the sector. Since the death of fish began, about 5 tons of dead organisms have already been collected.
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The Madrid message comes in full controversy over the responsibility for the situation between the national administration and that of Murcia, in which the Popular Party, the first force of the opposition, has ruled for 25 years. The latter argues that the harmful discharges come from activities over which the central government is competent, while Madrid argues the opposite, that is, that the current situation of the Mar Menor is the result of a permissive regional political management with respect to irregular activities.
Today, a visit to the Mar Menor by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Ecological Transition is expected, Teresa Ribera.
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