(22 Aug 2022)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Berlin - 22 August 2022
1. Wide of German government briefing
2. Journalists
3. SOUNDBITE (German) Andreas Kübler, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection spokesman:
"We regret that it has come to this assessment from the Polish side, and the search for the causes of the fish die-off in the Oder is still not complete. Meanwhile, there are several organic and inorganic substances that may be responsible. It seems to be a cocktail."
4. Journalists
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Andreas Kübler, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection spokesman:
"None of these substances alone has led to the fish die-off, according to our findings to date. It can be further assumed that it could be a multi-causal event, which, however, has not been claimed by any side and at no time in Germany that the pesticides alone were the cause of the fish die-off."
6. Journalists
7. Wide of government briefing
STORYLINE:
The German government said Monday that several substances seem to have contributed to the massive die-off of fish in the Oder river that forms much of the country's border with Poland.
A spokesman for the Environment Ministry also rejected suggestions by a senior Polish official that Germany was spreading "fake news" about pesticides being behind the environmental disaster.
"The search for the causes of the fish die-off in the Oder is still not complete," said Andreas Kübler, the spokesman.
"Several organic and inorganic substances" seem to be to blame, Kübler said, adding "It seems to be a cocktail."
Dead fish in the Oder were first noticed by fishermen in southwestern Poland in late July, but German authorities said they weren't officially notified by their Polish counterparts until the second week of August.
Poland's government has to track down those responsible.
Warsaw lashed out over the weekend, with Environment Minister Anna Moskwa accusing Germany of "fake news" about the levels of pesticides in the river.
"In Poland, the substance is tested and detected below the quantification threshold, that is, it has no effect on fish and other species," she wrote on Twitter.
Kübler said Germany never blamed Polish use of pesticides for the die-off.
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