© What's On XiamenTens of thousands of small fish kept jumping out the sea near Xiamen Binhai Park
for 15 minutes Wednesday afternoon.
for 15 minutes Wednesday afternoon.
"That was too weird, it seems they were trying to kill themselves", said Mr. Wu, a nearby resident, who felt quite concerned about these fish.
At about 1:30 pm on 14th July, Mr. Wu was walking around Xiamen Haibin Park when he saw this strange phenomenon.
At the very beginning, only some fish appeared near the surface. After a while, tens of thousands of fish gathered together and moved towards the seashore. All of a sudden, all these silvery small fish jumped up together to almost one metre high.
Some fish even jumped onto the seashore, while some fell down to the big stones along the seaside and became delicacies of nearby cats.
The spectacular sight lasted about 15 minutes.
But why did they do this? Did these fish really want to commit suicide?
Some residents say, "Maybe the oxygen contained in the sea water is not enough due to the hot weather, so these small fish need to jump out of the water to breathe some fresh air", while some other people speculated that the surrounding waters may be polluted.
Till now, it is still unknown why these small fish had to jump out of water together.
Experts say they will find out the cause soon.
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