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Fishermen have removed tons of dead fish from the Cajititlán lagoon.

Shovels, wheelbarrows and trucks full of dead fish: an image that is repeated on the shores of the Cajititlán lagoon, in Mexico.

The fishermen of the municipality of Tlajomulco have removed some 50 tons of dead popocha fish in the last week, in a task that has not yet finished.

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The freshwater popocha fish inhabits the Cajititlán lagoon and the nearby and larger Chapala lagoon.

But the reason for the massive death of fish in this lagoon, located in the state of Jalisco south of the city of Guadalajara, is still not known.

Local authorities have suggested that it is part of the «natural cycle,» but state officials have shown that the phenomenon is due to «mismanagement of water.»