The World - News from June 1, 1988
A blanket of yellow sea algae that killed hundreds of tons of fish along the coasts of Norway and Sweden apparently is threatening Danish fishing and tourism, officials said. Dead fish were found in three locations along the coast of Denmark since the algae spread from the southern coasts of Norway and Sweden last week, said Poul Toerring, director of the Fish Industry and Export Assn. Experts blamed nitrates from agricultural fertilizers and phosphorus from sewage and industrial pollution for the dramatic growth of the single-cell plants.
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