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piles of dead fish are washing ashore at Uganda's Lake Victoria and without a clear cause, according to the local fishing community.
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Uganda's Ministry of Agriculture said on Sunday that a usual phenomenon caused by hypoxia may have led to the deaths, although people in the area told Reuters the death rate was much higher than in the past.
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Teddy, now Gadea is a fishmonger in Qi, Gong Gu told us, and then you use really in the lake has become very polluted.
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That may also be one of the causes.
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Our Children swim in the water sometimes mostly the young ones go swimming without their parents knowledge now with fear.
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The water they swim in is what is killing the fish.
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We don't know the cause.
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We do not know how hard it is going to become and where we will end up way.
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Over the last few years, agricultural chemicals from industry farms and settlements near Lake Victoria have put stress on the environment on the people.
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We have also Amos, where Manya is a campaigner for Greenpeace Africa.
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All these stressors are perfecting the leg.
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They're also affecting the 300 over three milion libraries that depend on this resource.
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The Ministry of Agriculture ruled out poisoning, saying only the Nile perch species have been affected by the phenomenon.
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In a statement, it said that it is suspected the recent storms on the lakes caused mixing of the different waters, thereby reducing the oxygen levels.
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On that further tests were being conducted the determine the definitive reason behind the deaths.