Reports and images are now coming in of what appears to be a red tide in places such as Randalls Bay, Little Roaring Beach, Little Taylors Bay and elsewhere up and down the D’Entrecasteaux Channel in Tasmania.
Bob Brown Foundation’s website, Salmon Busters, has received reports of 15-20 dead sea cucumbers washing onto the shore, along with dead octopus and crabs at Little Taylors Bay on Bruny Island.
This accompanies reports of dead octopus at Legacy Beach near Conningham.
Bob Brown Foundation is calling on the Tasmanian premier to act immediately to prevent the type of devastation seen from algal blooms in South Australia.
‘These algal blooms and dead sea creatures are a harbinger of things to come as the water gets warmer in Tasmania,’ said Alistair Allan, Marine Campaigner at Bob Brown Foundation.
Urgent action is required from Premier Rockliff to reduce the nutrient loading of Tasmania’s waterways, including de-stocking the polluting factory salmon farms,’ he said.
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