A boy in the village of Aucho in Quemchi, Chile, scoops dead fish from a huge kill of millions of sardines, 26 January 2017. Photo: Soy Chile

27 January 2017 (Soy Chile) – A new natural phenomenon associated with the stranding of millions of dead sardines was exposed Thursday afternoon on the beach in the village of Aucho in Quemchi. The finding has powerfully attracted the attention of the inhabitants of this coastal sector which did not hesitate to go to the edge of the place to verify the situation. Yohana Rodríguez, enterprising tourist said that were a few visitors who checked in the first instance the sighting of the fish in all an extension of the beach and that intensified this morning Friday. “Tourists were found with the surprise of this stranding of sardines and today we went to see how big it was and was clear indeed fed up small sardine,” explained local entrepreneur. The villager of Auchao added that “what caught our attention days ago is that there were too many seagulls”. The unusual phenomenon is already in the knowledge of the captaincy of port of Quemchi that moved up to the beach of Aucho for information on this strange event on the shores of the place. [Translation by Bing.]

Quemchi: varan millones de sardinas en playa de Aucho