Swordfish may have died from asphyxiation in muddy waters - DutchNews.nl

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The swordfish that was found last week on the mudflats near the Eemshaven in Groningen probably suffocated in the mud. That's what curator Pierre Bonnet of Ecomare told RTV Noord. The gills of the animal were full of silt. The day before it washed ashore, the animal was already seen in shallow water with mud. "It probably panicked," says Bonnet. "The bottom is really muddy, you sink in it for at least thirty centimetres." Rare find The dead anim…