Caribbean

Scores Of Dead Fish Wash Ashore At Some BVI Beaches

TORTOLA -- Scores of dead fish washed up on the shorelines of Handsome Bay in Virgin Gorda this morning. There was a huge build up of Sargassum seaweed in that area this week. Someone who posted as Dominic Bufton on BVI Community Board on facebook, had pictures of what he said he found. Bufton said he found dead fish and sea life the length of the beach and on the water's edge, including baitfish, reef fish, moray eels, lobsters and even a nurse shark. And that same Sargassum is said to have caused the water plant in Handsome Bay to malfunction. On Thursday the Ministry of Communications informed residents of Virgin Gorda that the interruption to the water distribution service is being carefully handled by the ministry through the Water and Sewerage Department. The Ministry said a technical team was dispatched to the water plant in Virgin Gorda and reported that the vast amount of seaweed in the bay has caused the plant’s desalination process to become dysfunctional as a result of...