All fish murdered with poison in the lakes of Budapest’s City Park, Margaret Island!

Fish stocks in the lakes of Budapest City Park and Margaret Island were destroyed by the poisoning.

On Wednesday, dog walkers drew attention to the significant amount of dead fish in the lake of Budapest’s City Park. People in the area were trying to warn each other not to let dogs or children touch the water or the fish.

The fish poisoning affects the fish stocks of two lakes in Budapest.

According to Euronews, the poisoned fish were rescued from the Japanese garden on Margaret Island to the lake of Budapest’s City Park a few days ago.

This was due to the cleaning of the Margaret Island lakes that has been going on these past weeks. One of the biggest challenges for the gardeners was saving the fish. Accordingly, their collection lasted for three days, during which they took out the goldfish from the water one by one. As the lake system in the Japanese Garden on Margaret Island had to be drained during the clean-up, the fish were relocated to the lake of Budapest’s City Park.

On Wednesday, however, a chemical of unknown origin and composition was released into the water of the lake, killing all the fish, and the stock temporarily placed there from Margaret Island was also destroyed. Some turtles survived the poisoning, but it is not yet known whether they will make it.