{"id":14393,"date":"2025-07-22T02:49:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14393\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T02:49:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T02:49:08","slug":"fish-die-off-under-investigation-in-iqaluit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/14393\/","title":{"rendered":"Fish \u2018die-off\u2019 under investigation in Iqaluit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Environment<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Jul 21, 2025 \u2013 5:51 pm EDT<\/p>\n

Hundreds of dead fish seen near the deepsea port; Fisheries and Oceans Canada says don\u2019t touch them<\/p>\n


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Fisheries and Oceans Canada is investigating possible causes for an apparent \u201cdie-off\u201d of fish in Iqaluit. (Photo by Jeff Pelletier)<\/p>\n

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\n\t Jeff Pelletier – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter<\/a><\/p>\n

A \u201cdie-off\u201d of fish in Iqaluit is being investigated by the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans.<\/p>\n

\u201cFisheries and Oceans Canada has received reports of what appears to be a die-off of fish that has washed up in Iqaluit, Nunavut,\u201d said Jordan E. Charbonneau, communications director with the federal department, in an email Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe department is investigating to try to determine the cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Monday afternoon, hundreds of dead fish could be seen floating in an area near Iqaluit\u2019s deepsea port on the opposite side of the road from the causeway.<\/p>\n

The area, which appears to have a flow of water into it, was relatively unattended except for sealift vehicles going in and out of the port and the occasional raven picking away at some of the dead fish.<\/p>\n

Charbonneau did not say what type of fish were involved in the die-off or offer any other explanations.<\/p>\n

However, he warned the public not to touch the dead fish.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAs the cause is still under investigation and it is unknown how long the fish have been there, we ask the public not to remove the dead fish from the water,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere may be health risks to handling or consuming fish that have been dead in the water for an unknown period of time, and from an unknown cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nunavut\u2019s Department of Environment referred comment to Fisheries and Oceans Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Environment\u00a0\u00a0Jul 21, 2025 \u2013 5:51 pm EDT Hundreds of dead fish seen near the deepsea port; Fisheries and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66],"class_list":["post-14393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}