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This is the VOA Special English Agriculture Report.这里是美国之音慢速英语农业报道。
People in a community on the Pacific coast in Southern California awoke last week to a sea of dead fish. About eight hundred fifty sailboats and powerboats come and go from the marina at King Harbor in the city of Redondo Beach. But the sardines that swam into the marina never swam out. Estimates put the number of dead fish in the millions.上周,南加州太平洋沿岸人们一夜醒来后发现海中漂浮着大片死鱼。大约有850条帆船和摩托艇在雷东多比奇市(Redondo Beach)的国王码头(King Harbor)来来往往。但是游进码头的沙丁鱼再也没能游出来。据估计,死鱼数量已经达到数以百万计。
Local resident John Archibald described the smell this way.当地居民约翰·阿奇博尔德这样形容这些死鱼的气味。
JOHN ARCHIBALD: "Not bad. But I would not be ordering any pizzas around here lately."阿奇博尔德:“还好。但最近我不会在附近订任何匹萨。”
Reporter Pete Demetriou from KNX Newsradio in Los Angeles also spoke to another man who has lived in the area for twenty-six years.洛杉矶KNX新闻电台记者皮特还采访了另一位在这里居住了26年的男子。
MAN: "The die-off was as bad as I've ever seen, but they cleaned up pretty quick, so there's not too much smell."男子:“这次死鱼事件是我见过的最糟的一次。但他们清理得很快,所以没什么怪味。”
REPORTER: "Well, you've got a few fish on the top here but they're concerned that a lot of it may still be down there on the bottom. What do you do, do you try to clean it up or let it just basically decompose?"记者:“水面上的死鱼已经清理了,但人们担心的是水底下可能还有很多死鱼。你会怎么做?继续清理水底下的死鱼,还是让它们自然分解?”
MAN : "No, you just let it go. The crabs will get it."男子:“不用管,螃蟹会解决它们的。”。
He remembered that about five years ago there was another serious kill-off of fish in King Harbor. It was caused by a harmful algae bloom, a so-called red tide of microscopic organisms that spread from time to time. But this time scientists found no toxic algae in King Harbor, so it was a mystery.他还记得大约5年前,国王码头也发生了一次严重的死鱼事件。当时是由赤潮这种有害生态现象引起的,这是一种不时爆发的微生物红潮。但这次科学家在国王码头并没有发现有毒藻类,因此这次鱼类的死因还是个迷。
On Friday a scientist at the University of Southern California released findings of continuing research in his laboratory. Professor David Caron said fish collected on March ei