Algae -- Australia
Scores of dead fish line the banks of Lake Tom Thumb at Eaglehawk. What caused their deaths had not been determined on Friday morning [3 Feb 2017], but City of Greater Bendigo manager of environmental health and local laws Susannah Milne said it was possibly because of blue-green algae.
Ms Milne explained that as blue-green algae broke down it consumed oxygen in the water, leading to the suffocation of fish and other aquatic life. But the council will conduct tests on the dead fish, which
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