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Dead fish washed up in Tiberias marina (Gil Eliyahu / Jini) Last update - 22:23 17/02/2008 Tiberias man arrested after thousands of Kinneret fish poisoned By Eli Ashkenazi, Jack Khoury, and Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondents Tags: fish, Kinneret  Tiberias police on Sunday detained a 30-year-old resident of the city on suspicion of carrying out mass poisoning of fish in the Kinneret. On Saturday, the Health and Agriculture Ministries warned the public against purchasing fish from the Tiberias marina or from unknown sources after tens of thousands of dead fish washed up on the Lake Kinneret shore near the marina in the early morning. The Agriculture Ministry was expected to announce whether the cause of death was definitely poisoning, and what substance was in use. Advertisement Late Saturday, two soldiers were admitted to the Nahariya Hospital for abdominal pains. They said they had spent the weekend by the Kinneret and eaten fish they found floating near the shore, which as was later revealed, had been poisoned. They were released Sunday morning when their condition improved. The Health Ministry said on Saturday that only the Tiberias marina area had been affected and that fish from other parts of the Kinneret are safe for consumption. "Following initial reports of dead fish around the marina, our inspectors were deployed around the Kinneret to make sure there are no other affected sites," said Health Ministry Public Health Director Ze'ev Fisch. "It was a difficult sight, there was a virtual carpet of tens of thousands of dead fish floating on the surface of the water," the head of the supervisory division of the Kinneret Administration, Yehuda Nitzani, said Saturday. Teams of Health and Agriculture Ministries on Saturday inspected the city's markets, as well as the Nazareth market where a few poisoned fish were found. Fish in Lake Kinneret have been poisoned a number of times in recent years. Even a tiny amount of poison can kill large numbers of fish, saving the perpetrators from the labor of catching the fish with the usual methods. On previous occasions where poisoning was suspected no warning was issued to the public. Some observers believe the poisoning is far more widespread than is generally believed and is one of the main reasons for the decline of fish stocks in the lake in recent years. Green activists released after arrested at Lake Kinneret protest Nearly two thirds of Kinneret beaches not open to public Bookmark to del.icio.us   Artistic justice Israel Museum to exhibit art looted by Nazis and unclaimed. Let in snow For second time this winter, Jerusalem braces for snow.   1.   who did it? a sabotage? 03:51  |  Cristo 17/02/08   2.   Intentional Poisoning? 03:54  |  Rodney Dezarn 17/02/08   3.   Rodney Dezarn of Fayetteville, North Carolina 04:55  |  akiva (zionist) 17/02/08   4.   Where is the Brainless U.N. Judgement? 05:08  |  The Archives 17/02/08   5.   person of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 05:17  |  akiva (zionist) 17/02/08   6.   Akiva (Zionist) Wise Owl 05:34  |  Rodney Dezarn 17/02/08   7.   #4 06:08  |  Empresaria 17/02/08   8.   Blatant Israeli propaganda to hide gross Israeli pollution 10:47  |  Clickfool 17/02/08   9.   poison fish 11:10  |  Bill 17/02/08   10.   #9, BILL, thanks for the info 13:31  |  VIPER 17/02/08   11.   Spokesman for Israel Health Ministry 13:44  |  Mark 17/02/08   12.   follow the money - police payoffs 17:32  |  jewish doctor 17/02/08   13.   Not deserving of a country 17:53  |  Clickfool 17/02/08   14.   The Punishment Should Fit the Crime 18:15  |  Michael 17/02/08   15.   Tiberias man arrested after thousands of Kinneret fish poisoned 18:16  |  Gabi Anatol 17/02/08   16.   Tiberias 18:50  |  Naim S. Mahlab 17/02/08   17.   Floating 18:56  |  Kim Hartveld 17/02/08   18.   Jail him for life 20:22  |  Free Gilad Shalit 17/02/08   19.   Man poisoned fish in Kinneret so that he could walk on water 21:41  |  Boris 17/02/08   20.   TORAH 22:05  |  Arik Silverman 17/02/08   21.   In Jamaica they do it too... 00:16  |  Mike 18/02/08   22.   Haaretz Edditors: My commnets re: #4,#9,#13,Why antiisraeli hate? 00:36  |  Max Zinger P.Chimist 18/02/08   23.   viper 01:32  |  danny 18/02/08   24.   clicky 01:36  |  danny 18/02/08   25.   #16 Naim of Montreal, Your are right.Also Canadian Government 01:52  |  Max Zinger P.Chimist 18/02/08   26.   hmm, may be from all.. 09:38  |  some one 18/02/08   27.   Zionist plot - something`s fishy 22:29  |  Jose 18/02/08

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