THE fish kill in Manila Bay this week might have been due to an “oceanographic phenomenon called the upwelling or overturn caused by the depletion of dissolved oxygen among fish,” the Department of Agriculture’s Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (DA-BFAR) said on Saturday.
A man on a bicycle passes near hundreds of dead fish floating on the barge pool of the Baseco area in Tondo, Manila on Sept. 19, 2020. The Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources o n Saturday attributed the fish kill to the lack of oxygen. PHOTO BY RENE H. DILAN