In an alarming trend, a total of eight instances of fish kill were reported in Bengaluru lakes within seven months of 2022, surpassing the annual fish kill numbers in the last five years.
A report, ‘Fishkill in Lakes of Bengaluru (2017-2022)’, released by ActionAid, shows that while six incidents were reported in 2017 and 2018, the numbers came down during the lockdown years between 2019 and 2021.
In the last five years, a total of 32 cases of fish kill were identified in the city. This report is a secondary research, taking news reports as the database.
