Taiwan: Prolonged drought caused the salinity of fish farms to rise, causing a large number of farmed clams in Tainan to die

In Chigu, Beimen, Jiangjun, Annan and other districts of Tainan, a large number of cultured clams died one after another, causing heavy losses to fishermen. Lai Qingjian, chief of the Fisheries Section of the Tainan City Agriculture Bureau, explained that the normal salinity of clam culture ponds is about 2 degrees (18- 25 psu), the local fishermen reported that the culture pond was nearly 5 degrees Celsius, and the high salinity caused damage to the cultivation of Meretrix meretrix. Local fishermen reported that the salinity in the breeding pond was too high, which caused damage to the cultivation of Meretrix meretrix. (Photo provided by Tainan City Government Bureau of Agriculture) "The disaster damage this time is greater than in previous years. It may be because there was no rain, and the seawater salinity in the breeding pond could not be properly adjusted." Lai Qingjian said. There has been no heavy rainfall in Tainan for more than 600 days, and the concentration of seawater ...