PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

PNG’s New Ireland coastal waters causing fish deaths, human sickness

For several months, the waters around New Ireland province in Papua New Guinea have been causing illness, skin irritation and the death of sea life, according to communities living along the east coast of the island. In December 2025, residents say they began noticing that fish and other marine life were turning up dead along the shoreline, according to a coalition that is organizing a relief effort. John Aini, the founder of the Indigenous mari…