{"id":3346,"date":"2012-08-17T11:48:09","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T11:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/?page_id=3346"},"modified":"2022-05-23T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:37:14","slug":"cooling-canal-fishes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/cooling-canal-fishes","title":{"rendered":"Cooling Canal Fishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our way to the 25th anniversary memorial, we stopped off to feed the fish in the old cooling channels. Due to the lack of predators in the water, the cat fish have grown to be the dominant species and are in excess of 1 metre long with some even reaching 2.5 metres long. Not something we expected to do whilst we were there, but it showed perfectly how nature has bounced back already after the disaster.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/chernobyl-nuclear-power-plant\">Return to\u00a0Chernobyl Power Plant<\/a><\/p>\n<div data-carousel-extra='{&quot;blog_id&quot;:1,&quot;permalink&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/cooling-canal-fishes&quot;}' id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-3346 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/cooling-canal-fishes\/attachment\/reactor-3-and-4-2-2'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Reactor-3-and-4-21-300x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" 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Due to the lack of predators in the water, the cat fish have grown to be the dominant species and are in excess of 1 metre long with some even reaching 2.5 metres long. Not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/chernobyl-exclusion-zone\/cooling-canal-fishes\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cooling Canal Fishes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2883,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3346","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2FkD4-RY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3346\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetimechamber.co.uk\/beta\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}