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"The circling, squawking gulls show where the bodies are buried.
Early on a cold winter’s day, mucky foam and seaweed cover the sand at Grange
beach – and the dead fish and leafy sea dragons.
Every morning, council workers clear out the carnage left by the algal bloom
killing South Australian marine life and causing “collective trauma” in the
community.
Over 11km of coast from Grange to West beach, teams from the City of Charles
Sturt fill bags with dead fish and animals that will end up as compost,
collecting between 40kg and 200kg in a single day.
They arrive before dawn and the daily walkers and their dogs, working to make
the afflicted beaches more pleasant. Sometimes, community members make life
easier in turn by taking it upon themselves to sort the carcasses into neat
piles for them to collect.
“We started doing it because we felt we needed to just get it off the beach,”
the coordinator of parks and biodiversity, Tyron Bennetts, says. As the scale
of the bloom became clear, they started cataloguing and weighing what they
picked up each day."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
