Visitors to the Number 63 Beach have been raising concerns over the number of dead fishes that has been washed up along the shoreline since last Friday.
A large sting ray that washed up at the Number 63 Beach
Guyana Times visited the tourist destination on Saturday to discover the decomposing remains of many species of fish, but largely those from the unscaled family, littered along the beach. There was also one very large sting ray which recently washed ashore among a large quantity of small and large fishes.
This publication caught up with three female visitors who had just completed a swim. One of the women, who identified herself as Gaitree from Number 64 Village, said she heard about situation since Friday last, and she experienced it first hand on Saturday during her swim at the beach. The dead fishes were both on the sand, and in the water.
Another woman name Tina, also from the same area, said that it is the first time she has witnessed so many dead fishes on the beach, declaring that “something is definitely wrong”.
“I experienced a lot of dead fish and so long I’m here, I never see so much of fish…. and all sizes of fish from the small one to the big one, especially the unscaled fish them… no scale fish, more un-scale… it get lots of dogs, and they eating out the fish.”
Visitors of the Number 63 Beach holds up a dead fish that was washed ashore
