Sea Trust Wales founder, Cliff Benson, believes many of the fish were catshark.<\/p>\n
He said he had reported those found at Saundersfoot to Natural Resources Wales (NRW) after seeing an image posted on social media.<\/p>\n
“It could have been from a trawler,” he said. <\/p>\n
NRW said the dead fish at Pembrey Beach had not been reported to them, but that the fish appeared to be discarded or part of a lost catch. <\/p>\n
An officer had visited Saundersfoot beach, NRW said, but found no trace of the animals as they had been washed back into the sea. <\/p>\n
A spokesperson said: “We investigated reports of dead fish at Saundersfoot and found no evidence of a pollution incident.<\/p>\n
“The fish appear to be dogfish, and this is likely linked to fishing by-catch being discarded at sea.<\/p>\n
“Tides have since cleared the majority from the shoreline and no wider environmental impacts were identified.<\/p>\n
“We have informed the local authority and relevant partners.”<\/p>\n
Carmarthenshire and Pembrokeshire councils have been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sea Trust Wales founder, Cliff Benson, believes many of the fish were catshark. He said he had reported…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[61,60,82,263],"class_list":["post-469572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}