Seventy tons of fish carcasses floated to the surface of the Linggai lake in West Sumatra on Thursday (February 6).<br /><br />The Head of the local district Fisheries and Food Security Office, Ermanto said, there were around seventy tons of fish that died.<br /><br />He alleged that climate change was a contributing factor to the mass death of the fish.<br /><br />Due to local climate changing, poison forming at the bottom of the lake has subsequently risen closer to the surface where the fish feed.<br /><br />"The current weather or waves at the bottom of the lake, causing fish food to pile up at the bottom of the lake to rise to the surface. <br /><br />"The rest of the feed is poisonous, which causes many fish to die when they eat it again," explained Ermanto.<br /><br />Ermanto appealed to the community to immediately harvest fish that are still alive and place them in lake cages so they do not die.
