After the environmental disaster, Mühlviertel -Vissers are in the Großer Mühl near Haslach in Upper Austria, almost drying after an oil leak. Thousands of fish are now threatened with painful suffocation.
“We can still eat our fish. Unfortunately they do not taste like olive oil, but as a heating oil” Walter Koller, director of the Rohrbach fishing area, practices in Galghumor. From Wednesday 8.12 am, five fire brigades were warned one after the other for an oil leak in the Große Mühl near Haslach. A farmer had previously filled a tank with heating oil above the river, about a kilometer distance. Something went wrong, the 1000 liter tank ran in the Mühl through drainage pipes that we reported.
Oil locks are difficult
The fire brigades build five oil barriers between hashlach and new delivery, but unfortunately the success was only modest, as Fischer Koller knows: “The rainfall is higher than normal. That was our bad luck because the Mühl is only slow there.
15 kilometers of river are affected
What is the actual damage due to the oil slick? Fischer Koller says: “Three years ago we thoroughly tasted two kilometers below the starting point, stunned, removed, removed and brought them out and then reused. That is why we can say exactly that one hundred meters from the large Mühl, a thousand fish live. Aehen, trout and also white fish and all possible animal species from which the fish feeds.”
In particular, animals in the waters threaten the painfully slow suffocation as soon as the oil glues the gills. 15 kilometers of river are hit. The paradise for fly fishermen will only recover in three to five years.
Source: Krone
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