Hundreds of kilos of dead fish in Damse Vaart due to oxygen deficiency

They are now using special boats to remove the duckweed, which should improve the water quality. But even today you can still see dead fish floating on the Damse Vaart here and there.

“Definitive solutions to avoid this situation in the future? Well, with the Flemish Waterway we are looking at how the Schipdonk and the Leopold Canal drain that water, that less water ends up in the sea, but more in our Polders, so that we can spend more time here. can capture rainwater,” says Joachim Coens, mayor of Damme.