An ecologist says that an “algae war” that broke out along the south coast of South Australia may be a sign that the tide is slowly turning against the poisonous flowering of the state, who want to treat the greens as a national disaster.
Fishermen have reported that they have seen what is considered a biolumine -chattering algae that is known to be the Noinia Mikimoi Algae species that have been responsible for the massive fish for the past four months.
The Greens have called on the federal government to explain a national disaster to flowering due to the impact on coastal communities and companies.
“The last calamares I caught was on Good Friday … and it was a long time ago,” Feurieu Peninsula Squid fisherman Nathan Eatts told ABC Radio Adelaide.
MR EATTS collected samples from the water for further analysis. ((Lever: Nathan Eints))
But Mr Etents is hopeful Nature himself can be part of the solution, especially in the light of what he saw while fishing on Sunday morning.
He said he was on the water when he noticed that it had changed color.
“It just became clear red, the water,”
he said.
“I followed it a bit. It was about a kilometer and half a long by 30 meters wide.
“Early reports that come back from it is that it is a ‘sea park’ – a kind of organic lency algae.
“Apparently that could possibly be the CaneniaThe bad things. “
Eatts said he contacted the authorities and collected carefully samples for civil scientists.
‘Sparkle’ or Hope
Estuarine ecologist Faith Coleman said she had examined and identified images of the monsters as contained as contain Noctiluca Sparkling – the algae that causes “seawank”.
“We are starting to get those algae that cause the phosphorescent blue waves at certain times of the year,” she said.
“What they do is to go around, they eat other bacteria and algae, and in this case it seems that they probably eat Noinia Mikimoi.
Ecologist Faith Coleman has shown a great interest in algae blooms. ((ABC News: What Chorley))
“The sea shines … already cleans up dying flowers and it cleans them to a point that they do not bloom again if they get the chance.
“We are not nearly nearby yet.”
Although Mrs. Coleman said it was “absolutely too early to say” the sea sparkle would spell the end of the poisonous flowering, it was still a promising sign.
“It’s an algae war zone,”
she said.
“Nature collects its soldiers on the ground and the Sea Sprankeling is an important part of that.
“That is what it is trying to do – whether it will of course work, is of course another matter.”
Calls for national response
South Australian Greens Sarah Hanson-Young says that the party, both at the federal level, is investigating research into the ‘environmental catastrophe’.
Senator Hanson-Young said she had written to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese looking for an urgent national reaction.
“We encouraged the prime minister to explain this event a national disaster in the lines of what is happening for flooding and fires,” said Senator Hanson-Young.
Dead Port Jackson Shark under life at sea was washed at the Aldinga Beach last month. ((ABC News: Olivia Mason))
“Our communities hurt, our industries suffer and so far is the only reaction of the government to get used to it.”
“If these dead fish on the coast of Bondi beach on the north coast of Sydney were to wash, this would be a national protest.“
Greens MLC Robert Simms said he would move to to start a state -based investigation into flowering when the parliament returns at the end of August.
“That is so that we can bring in the government departments and investigate their approach to this crisis,” Simms said.
The Prime Minister’s office has been contacted for a response.
An underwater Chernobyl
Over the past 30 years, Diver Mark Tozer has visited the shipwreck of the Claris, a popular dive site about eight kilometers from Glenelg Beach.
He said the site was normally full of life at sea and coral and was destroyed when he visited the site last week.
Duiker Mark Tozer described the destruction as an underwater ‘Tsjernobyl’ when he visited the dive site last week.
“My immediate thought when I was diving Chernobyl, this is just absolute destruction,”
Said Mr. Tozer.
“On the way down it was green and was full of algae that just drove through the water column and by the time you came to the bottom, you could hardly see your hand, it was filthy,” he said.
“It was all over the floor everywhere on the floor, there were cockles and molluscs just open, dead, gone … It was a death zone.”
Mr. Tozer said that the Rif Van Glenelg Beach meets fishing when he visited in July last year. ((Lever: Mark Tozer))
Mr. Tozer said he was surprised to see the far-reaching extent of flowering and felt concern about the future of the diving industry and local bait and tackle stores.
“The government must intervene and understand these poor people who have a company … This is out of their hands,” he said.
“Who would like to buy a boat in South Australia?”
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