Tons of dead fish cleared from Rio rowing venue

Workers cleared up another five tons of dead fish from the shores of a Rio lagoon where Olympic rowing and canoeing events are due to take place in 2016, bringing to 37 tons the amount removed since last week, officials said on Wednesday. More than 60 people from the city's sanitation department have been working daily to remove the thousands of fish and will keep doing so until the problem is resolved, department officials said. "There was a big effort to stop sewage and we removed everything possible," Paulo Rosman, an oceanographer who has worked at the lagoon for years, told Reuters. The unfortunate situation on the banks of the Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas is not new as tons of dead fish have appeared at regular intervals for decades.

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