Fun With Fish Feces
Well, this story should elicit an "urk" from readers. Four workers at a fish farming operation in Massachusetts had to be rescued from a tank containing a slimy mess of sand mixed with fish feces.
Rescuers cut through a filtration tank of dense fish feces to reach four workers who fell into the sludgy dung Friday while cleaning the 18-foot tank at a western Massachusetts farm.
The workers became trapped for 45 minutes after a bracket holding a plastic filtration pad collapsed as workers stood on it to clean the fiberglass tank at the Australis Aquaculture fish farm, said Turners Falls Fire Capt. David Dion and the fish farm's manager, Josh Goldman.
One of the farmhands was submerged in what Dion described as a sand-and-feces mix, while the other three had their heads above the sludge, he said.
Dion said rescue workers cut a hole in the side of the tank at the farm, which raises barramundi, a fish farmed as a replacement for grouper.
I will have to add this to the list of jobs I refuse to aspire to.
By Quilly Mammoth, Saturday, 12 May , 2007 @ 7:55 am
Oh for the days when farm hands only had to worry about getting their arms ripped off by threshing machines……
By skh.pcola, Saturday, 12 May , 2007 @ 12:16 pm
From Wikipedia:
“Barramundi are usually a pale grey-green with a coppery shimmer, and can grow to a maximum length of 2 m (6 ft 7 in), weighing up to 60 kg (130 lb)…”
and
“The species is sequentially hermaphroditic, most individuals maturing as males and becoming female after at least one spawning season; most of the larger specimens are therefore female.”
Them’s some big transgendered fishies.
By Quilly Mammoth, Sunday, 13 May , 2007 @ 6:52 am
HAIRSPRAY!!