South Korea: Hundreds of Tuna Killed by Typhoon Bolaven

August 31, 2012 from LinkAsia via MBC

Hundreds of bluefin tuna became unlikely victims of Typhoon Bolaven when it battered the Korean peninsula earlier this week. A power outage cut electricity at the world's first successful tuna fish farming operation, meaning a vital pump designed to supply their tank with fresh, oxygen-rich sea water stopped working. With each fish worth thousands of dollars, the farm's owners are set to lose millions. Sixty-five other farms collapsed, killing around 1.5 million fish.

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Fish farming

Fish farming is the principal form of aquaculture, while other methods may fall under mariculture. Fish farming involves raising fish commercially in tanks or enclosures, usually for food. A facility that releases juvenile fish into the wild for recreational fishing or to supp... Explore this topic

Typhoon

The Eurofighter Typhoon is a twin-engine, canard-delta wing, multirole fighter. The Typhoon was designed by a consortium of three companies, EADS, Alenia Aeronautica and BAE Systems, working through a holding company, Eurofighter GmbH, which was formed in 1986. It was initiall... Explore this topic

South Korea

South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, is a sovereign state located in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula. The name "Korea" is derived from Goryeo, a dynasty which ruled in the Middle Ages. Its neighbors are China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea ... Explore this topic

Power outage

A power outage is a short- or long-term loss of the electric power to an area. There are many causes of power failures in an electricity network. Examples of these causes include faults at power stations, damage to electric transmission lines, substations or other parts of the... Explore this topic

Tuna

Tuna are a group of salt water fish from the family Scombridae, particularly of the genus Thunnus. Tuna are fast swimmers, and some species are capable of speeds of 70 km/h (43 mph). Unlike most fish, which have white flesh, the muscle tissue of tuna ranges from pink to dark r... Explore this topic

Natural disaster

A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage, and typically leaves some ... Explore this topic

Extreme weather

Extreme weather includes unusual, severe or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. The most commonly used definition of extreme weather is based on an event's climatological distribution: Extreme wea... Explore this topic

Korean Peninsula

The Korean Peninsula is a peninsula in East Asia. It extends southwards for about 684 miles from continental Asia into the Pacific Ocean and is surrounded by the Sea of Japan to the east, and the Yellow Sea to the west, the Korea Strait connecting the first two bodies of water... Explore this topic

Seawater

Morska voda je voda iz mora ili okeana. U proseku voda u svetskim okeanima ima salinitet od ~35‰. To znači da na svaku litru morske vode dolazi 35 grama različitih soli rastvorenih u njoj. To se može opisati kao 0,6 M NaCl ili 0,6 mol·L-1. Iako se većina morske vode u okeanima... Explore this topic

Fish

A fish is any member of a paraphyletic group of organisms that consist of all gill-bearing aquatic craniate animals that lack limbs with digits. Included in this definition are the living hagfish, lampreys, and cartilaginous and bony fish, as well as various extinct related gr... Explore this topic

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