Mystery of hundreds of thousands of dead fish on Cornish beach solved

While some blamed bad weather or predation for beaching at Marazion at St Michael's Mount, the fish were in fact dumped by a trawler for safety reasons

The mystery of why hundreds of thousands of fish were found washed up on a Cornish beach over the weekend has been solved: they were dumped by a trawler that caught too many sardines in shallow water.

After a photographer happened on the huge shoal of dead fish on Marazion at St Michael's Mount beach, various explanations were offered for her eerie discovery - just two weeks after a similar sighting on another Cornish beach. Bad weather out at sea and attempts by the fish to escape large predators were both suggested as explanations.