A fisherman looks at buckets of dead rockfish at an aquacultural farm in Taean County in South Chungcheong on Monday.
A fisherman looks at buckets of dead rockfish at an aquacultural farm in Taean County in South Chungcheong on Monday. [YONHAP]
A fisherman looks at buckets of dead rockfish at an aquacultural farm in Taean County in South Chungcheong on Monday.
About 550,000 rockfish were estimated to have died en masse in Taean as of Sunday due to high water temperatures, according to local authorities. A high water temperature alert was issued for the region on Aug. 2.
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