South Africa: Feeding dead fish – government-funded aquaculture project implodes

“The ponds were full of dirty water with algae floating on it. There were dead fish in a wheelbarrow. We threw in some food but no fish appeared, then we used a net but it came up empty. So we got the caretaker to drain one of the ponds and there were dead fish at the bottom. It was a fish farm with nothing but dead fish. But the caretaker was continuing to feed them.”

NSPCA inspector Wrolien Rabi was visibly upset by what she found at Small Kloof Fisheries, a government-sponsored…