Workers
have been catching fish inside the flooded abandoned New World shopping centre
in Bangkok, The International Business Times reports.
In 1997, Thailand's supreme court ordered the demolition of
a seven-storey extension of the shopping centre when it was revealed the
developers only had permission to construct a four-storey building.
The demolition left a roofless four-storey structure. Over
the years, rain turned the ground floor of the mall into a pond – an ideal
breeding ground for mosquitoes.
People living near the shopping centre released fish into
the pond to take care of the mosquito problem.
Veera Watcharagoneyotine, director of a fishery, estimated
there were about 3000 fish in the shopping centre, mostly mango fish, catfish
and striped catfish.
The captured fish will be held at fisheries in Samut Prakan,
Pathum Thani and Ayutthaya provinces before being released into reservoirs,
canals and rivers.
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