In Ghana, around sixty dolphins and fish found washed up on the coasts

Some sixty dolphins and fish of other species washed up on beaches on the sides of the country over the weekend, authorities and local Ghanaian sources said on Monday.

For now, the causes of this phenomenon have not been determined.

"Arriving on the beach, the team noticed a large number of small pelagic fish (which live in open water, editor's note) and demersal species (which live near the bottom, editor's note) washed up on the beach", indicated in a press release Michael Arthur-Dadzie, the director general of the National Fisheries Commission.

"No lesions or injuries"

This press release details that "according to the first observations, the fish showed no lesions or injuries".

Samples taken from stranded species and from the sea will be analyzed in a laboratory in order to try to find the causes of such a phenomenon.

“The color and temperature of the sea were normal.

We assure everyone that we are working hard to establish the exact causes of the death of these fish, ”said Michael Arthur-Dadzie.

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This video from Ghanaian media outlet Citi shows workers burying fish discovered on Osu Beach in the country's capital Accra in the sand.

It would thus be a question of preventing the inhabitants from coming to collect them but some of them had already been collected by the local population.

Quoted by Citi, Samuel Nii Adjei Tawiah, the head of the municipality of Korle Klottey, indicated that an announcement was made this weekend to tell residents that they should neither buy nor eat the dead fish that have fallen. washed up on the coasts.