Brazil: Rio’s Main Lagoon Overflows With Dead Fish

By Larry Habegger and Laurie Weed | Permalink | No Comments | March 19th, 2013 | Trackback

Heavy rains and rotting algae depleted the water-oxygen levels in Rio de Janeiro’s Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, filling the 2016 Olympic rowing venue—and site of countless postcard pictures—with thousands of dead, decomposing fish. During a two-day emergency cleanup process, workers hauled more than 71 tons of dead fish out of the lagoon, which is located directly beneath Rio’s most famous monument, a statue of Christ the Redeemer, and between the legendary Ipanema and Leblon beaches. A similar phenomenon occurred there in 2009, killing more than 100 tons of fish.

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