Martapura, South Kalimantan (Antaranews) - Millions of fish are dying because of lack of oxygen causes the Riam Kanan River in Banjar district contaminated with bacteria derived from fish carcasses.
"The river must have been contaminated due to the millions of fish carcasses filled the whole body of the river," said Saifuddin, the owner of the floating net cage in the village of Bangkal Awang Martapura on Monday.
Burhan, another farmer, said millions of tilapia carcasses and pomfret meets Riam Kanan river basin with a width of 30 meters and a length of seven kilometers of it.
The flow of the river is filled with fish carcasses will become longer if the water flow of running when the reservoir runoff water door opened, then widespread pollution.
While fish cage owners hard to dispose of fish carcasses ashore or buried because of the very large numbers so that the only way to throw into the river.
He said, the current condition of the river water is terrible, filled with millions of fish carcasses that could not be used for daily needs such as bathing and others.
"Instead of bathing, washing hands alone is not possible because the river filled with fish carcasses and smells so anyone should cover the nose," he said.
The death of hundreds of tons of ready for harvest fish and seed consumption was made ​​hundreds of floating net cage owners lost billions of rupiah.
