The German authorities has urged Poland to make clear the circumstances which have led to a mysterious mass die-off of fish alongside the Oder River that runs between the 2 international locations.

The consequences of what’s being referred to as an “ecological catastrophe” have already reached the mouth of the Baltic Sea, the place hundreds of useless fish have been discovered.

“We agree: the precedence now’s harm limitation, defending the inhabitants and figuring out the trigger and the potential perpetrator,” Germany’s surroundings minister Steffi Lemke stated on a go to to Frankfurt on the Oder on the Polish border on Saturday, a day after she had met along with her Polish counterpart to debate the problem.

“This environmental crime have to be solved,” she added.

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