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Fact Check: Video showing shoals of fish ashore Vizag beach makes a MISLEADING claim

Cyclone Michaung made a landfall near Bapatla, between Nellore and Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh, leading to extremely heavy rain in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry.

By 6 Dec 2023 9:06 AM GMT
vishakapatnam, fishes in beach, Cyclone Michaung

  • Claim :

    The video shows fish washed ashore on the beach in Vizag due to the recent Cyclone Michaung

  • Fact :

    The video is an old one and shows the incident of fish floating ashore on the beach in Bhimili, Andhra Pradesh

Cyclone Michaung made landfall near Bapatla, between Nellore and Machilipatnam in Andhra Pradesh, leading to extremely heavy rain in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Puducherry. The cyclone wreaked havoc in Chennai and several parts of Tamil Nadu. Chennai is facing massive water-logging where the cyclone even caused few deaths.

As the cyclone hit several parts of Andhra Pradesh, a video showing shoals of fish floating near the shore is going viral with the claim that fish have come ashore in Vishakapatnam due to Cyclone Michaung.

The caption in Telugu goes “*తుఫాను కారణంగా విశాఖ బీచ్ లో ఒడ్డుకు కొట్టుకు వచ్చిన చేపలు.”




The claim is viral on all platforms of social media.

Fact check:

The claim is Misleading. The video is from May 2023 and not recent.

When we searched the key frames extracted from the viral video, we found that the video has been online on several YouTube channels of mainstream Telugu media since May 2023.

A viral video was published by Samayam Telugu on May 29, 2023, titled “Thousands of fish wash ashore on Bheemili beach I Vishakapatnam”. The description states that the residents and visitors at Bheemili Beach in the city were surprised to see thousands of live fish lying on the shore.

The same video was also published by NTV Telugu on their YouTube channel with the title Fishes Washed Ashore at Bheemili Beach | Ntv

The anchor can be heard stating that the fish were washed ashore a day before the video was published and that the locals as well as the tourists tried to catch these live fishes.


The same video was also published by V6 News Telugu with the title “Huge fishes washed ashore at Vizag Beach”.

The longer video was also published by Circare Express on May 29, 2023, with the title విశాఖపట్నం బీచ్ లో ఒడ్డుకు చేపలు || Fish washed ashore at Visakhapatnam beach @CircarExpress

Therefore, the viral video is not recent and shows the incident that took place in May 2023, when the fish were washed ashore live on the beach. This is not due to Cyclone Michaung. The claim is Misleading.

Claim :   The video shows fish washed ashore on the beach in Vizag due to the recent Cyclone Michaung
Claimed By :  Social media users
Claim Reviewed By :  Telugupost Fact Check
Claim Source :  Social media
Fact Check :  Misleading
News Summary - Video showing shoals of fish ashore Vizag beach makes a MISLEADING claim
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Satya Priya BN

A motivated professional with a zeal to learn with more than 7 years of experience as a Content and Digital manager in Press, Electronic, and Digital media. Fact checker with more than 4 years of experience in fact checking. Trained by Google News Initiative India Training Network. Fact check trainer, Factshala Trainer, BBC Young Reporter India Trainer and also participated in Trauma literacy training. Worked in Newsmeter.in as a Fact Check Lead from September 2019 to October 2021. Worked as a Freelance Senior Researcher with BBC World Service, Investigations Unit from January 2022 to Aril 2022 and also as Freelance Fact Checker for Newsmeter.in Also Conducting workshops on Fact Checking for various communities including Media students etc. Conducted fact checking workshops for school students as part of pilot project – BBC Young Reporter India in the past few months. Participated in Workshop on Countering Disinformation for Telugu Television Reporters conducted by US Consulate General and Osmania University in 2022 as Trainer. Trained the journalists on several topics of Fact checking such as Types of misinformation, Tools and Techniques of photo and video verification, Geolocation, writing fact checks, Health fact checking etc. Co-authored the first Fact check manual- “How to write Fact-checks” in Telugu language as part of the workshop. Presently working as Fact check lead in Telugupost.com.
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