Director of the Centre for Coastal Management at the University of Cape Coast, Professor Denis Aheto, says the death of the fishes can be attributed to the climate change effect.
He said Dennis Ahetofrom a marine ecology point of view, an overturn of the water due to climate change effect can lead to a deoxygenated environment in the upper waters which can cause mass deaths.
Professor Aheto said another factor can be chemical pollution. Tons of dead fish were found along the shores of the Osu Castle beach in Accra on Friday.
On that same day, close to 100 mammals suspected to be melon-headed whales were also washed ashore at the Axim-Bewire beach in the Nzema East Municipality of the Western Region.
Professor Aheto said this is not the first time fishes have been washed ashore adding that these things do happen occasionally not just in Ghana but along coastal countries.
He however said that the more problematic issue is that the dolphins that have been washed are marine mammals which are endangered species.
