"Colombia Drought Suffocates Tons of Fish"

[GreenPartyVoter]

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - An estimated 3 million fish have suffocated in a reservoir in southern Colombia, where a four-month drought has drastically drained water levels, leaving too little oxygen to sustain dozens of hatcheries.

Since Sunday, more than 1,320 tons of tilapia raised inside giant metal cages have gone belly-up and floated to the surface behind the Betania hydroelectric dam, where scorchingly high temperatures have lowered water levels by 82 feet in recent months.

The local fish industry, which exports the tilapia as fillets to the United States and Europe, could lose more than $2 million, said Eliseo Motta, government secretary in Huila state, where the dam is located.

"Every day the reservoir levels just get lower," Motta told The Associated Press by telephone from Betania, where he was supervising work crews burying and incinerating the dead fish.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20070301/D8NJ21I00.html

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Memo: Global Warming is a Lie. A Big Lie.

:sarcasm:

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. We know this because Ann Coulter and Jerry Falwell said so.