Is this a preview of what we expect in Madang Province in the next 10 years?

The photograph below was sent to me by some friends in Madang Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a photograph of a fish taking its last straw of life. It was found along the coast of Madang. If you take a closer look, this fish is swimming upside down fish with its belly fully swollen.

This fish is commonly found along the coast of Papua New Guinea. People fishing along the reefs closer to the shorelines often catch this type of fish. According to coastal people, a swollen fish is an indication that it must have consumed some sort of poison in the food chain. At this stage the sources don’t know yet what kind of poison and where did that poison come from.

This raises a lot of questions when one thinks about the many development initiatives being talked about on media and others which are already underway in Madang Province. Is this fish a preview of what we expect in Madang in the next couple of years? Do the people in Madang should expect more of this in future especially if the Ramu Nickel Mine and Marengco start dumping their wastes into the Astrolabe Bay?
Is this what the coastal people are about to see more of when 10 more new fish canneries under the Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ) begin their processing operations on the coast of Madang?