Dead in the water
Straits Times 28 Feb 08;
Nature lovers were shocked to discover this scene at the Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve on Monday.
Straits Times reader Edmund Chan stumbled upon about 80 dead catfish and mullets in a brackish pond near the reserve, and sent this shot to The Straits Times' online portal, Stomp.
The National Parks Board said a combination of scorching temperatures and low rainfall made the fishes' natural surroundings too hot to live in, something that happens once every few years. The fish will now become food for the area's scavengers, or be washed out to sea.