(MCT) — LOS ANGELES — On behalf of a leading animal rights group, an Irvine, Calif., woman is asking the city to erect a memorial at the street corner where 1,600 pounds of live fish died this month when a container truck was involved in a three-vehicle crash.

Dina Kourda, a volunteer with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wrote to the Irvine Public Works Department to request that a sign be placed at the intersection of Walnut and Yale avenues to honor the lives of the fish — believed to be saltwater bass — lost in the accident.