BACOLOD CITY: The Community Environment and Natural Resources Office (CENRO) is investigating reports of a fishkill in rivers of Pontevedra, Negros Occidental affecting three barangay (villages).

Joan Nathaniel Gerangaya, CENRO chief, said they sent a team to validate the reports received by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Central Office on Wednesday that the fishkill has initially affected upstream portions of Barangay San Juan as shown by dead tilapia floating in the river.