The World - News from May 27, 1988
A belt of deadly algae that has already killed much of the marine life along parts of the Swedish and Norwegian coasts is sweeping toward rich fish farms on Norway’s west coast. Marine biologists and researchers have been working frantically to find ways of stopping the trail of greenish slime from choking the gills of thousands of fish. The disaster, already dubbed “the Chernobyl of the sea” by one Norwegian newspaper, may have been caused by chemical pollution, researchers say.
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