According to people in Huong Do commune, from April 8 to now, a series of unusually dead fish have been discovered in Khe Ac stream. The dead fish species were mainly catfish, catfish, freshwater fish...
The dead fish caused a strong stench in the surrounding environment and caused concerns about the health as well as the domestic and production water of local people.
According to many people in Huong Do commune, there are many pig farms in the upstream of Khe Ac stream in Huong Tra commune. Therefore, they suspect that those farms may discharge waste, causing fish deaths.
According to Mr. Dinh Quoc Quan - Vice Chairman of Huong Do Commune People's Committee, in recent days, there has been a phenomenon of dead fish along Khe Ac stream.
After learning about this incident, the locality went to the scene to check and reported to the People's Committee of Huong Khe district.
According to Mr. Quan, the flow of Khe Ac stream through Huong Do commune does not have any pig farms. In Huong Tra commune, at the headwaters of Khe Ac stream, there are 2 pig farms.
On April 11, Head of the Department of Agriculture and Environment of Huong Khe district, Le Huu Dong, said that after receiving a report from the Huong Do commune government about the situation of dead fish in Khe Ac stream, the district sent staff to check the incident and took samples to send to the province for analysis to find the cause.
