Police investigating death of hundreds of fish in Dyje River

Police are investigating the death of hundreds of fish in the Dyje River near Dačice in the Jindřichuv Hradec Region. Initial finding suggest that they were probably poisoned by sewage that got into the water. According to Lukáš Skořepa from the environmental department of the Dačice municipal authority, the fish died on a two to three kilometer stretch  of the river, but the mortality is not significant in the lower reaches. Fishermen and firefighters are now working to clean the water. The river is mostly inhabited by roach, bream, pike, pikeperch and to a lesser degree carp. The worst polluted stretch of the river is close to the wastewater treatment plant for Dačice.