Mystery as 100 tonnes of d ead herring wash up on Russian island leaving experts baffled
Mystery as 100 tonnes of dead herring wash up on Russian island leaving experts baffled. NEARLY 100 tonnes of dead fish have washed up on a Russian island in a mystery that’s left experts baffled.
Hundreds of thousands of Pacific herring were found dead over a 150ft stretch of Piltun Bay on Russia's Sakhalin Island.
Wildlife experts said the 93 tonnes of dead fish were piled up in 28 different clusters – some of them 12 inches thick.
A spokesman for the regional NGO Ecological