Formosa Fire May Have Polluted Fishery, Officials Say
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A fire at Formosa Petrochemical Corp.’s residual processing unit this month may have polluted fisheries near the plant, local government officials said.
Dead clams and fish have been found in an area of about 1,000 hectares (2,471 acres) since the July 25 accident, said Lai Chien-sheng, a section chief at the agriculture department of Yunlin county, where the plant is located. “We’re probing the cause of the deaths,” he said by phone today.