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Ministry: Hot weather, giant sponges cleaned up Lake Nasser diesel spill
Ninety percent of the diesel that spilled into Lake Nasser on Sunday has already evaporated due to
high temperatures in Aswan, the Environment Ministry claimed on Thursday.
The rest of the spill was mopped up by the Armed Forces with huge sponges, the ministry alleged.
Preliminary investigations suggested that the spillage came from a leaky ship stationed at the port of
the High Aswan Dam.
On Thursday Environment Minister Khaled Fahmy ordered the formation of a field committee to
perform a full scan of the High Dam port area to ensure that no contamination occurred from the
spill.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
Lake Nasser fishing ban begins Friday
17/04/2010
Gamal Nawfl
Mohamed el-Sayed Solayman
Mohamed ElGohary
Aswan Governor Mustafa el-Sayid has decided to impose a one-month fishing ban on Lake Nasser
beginning Friday. The ban also applies to all boats working in the ports of Aswan, Abu Simbel and
Garf Hussein and is an opportunity for the lake‘s fish to repopulate the lake.
The governorate will also stop collecting fees from fishermen and fishermen associations. Previously,
fishermen had to pay LE380 per ton of fish, and LE7 for each can of salted fish, the money from
which went to protect and develop Egypt‘s water resources. To help repopulate the lake, the
government released 30 million Nile minnows into the lake.
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