SA fishos will be concerned by a recent event where sea life died as a weird foam washed up on shore … story here.

Interestingly, this follows an extended hot water anomaly in the area, pic attached. Image adapted from www.climatereanalyzer.org.

The hot water anomaly was around Tasmania too, where they had the largest recorded die-off of farmed Atlantic salmon near the Huon (southern region). New Zealand was also affected.

There was also a fish kill off the Pilbara at Gnoorea a few weeks before, with a similar hot water anomaly.

FOOTNOTE: WFS visited Adelaide for a week around April 20, the bloom was continuing at this time and extended with dead fish and seals reported on Yorke Peninsula, Kangaroo Island and close to Adelaide. Also dead kangaroos off one of the affected beaches, but this was blamed on canaris grass. South Australia also had a big marine fish kill in 2013 … https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2019.00610/full

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When I was a kid we would use mince mixed with Keen curry powder for mullet on Adelaide beaches. Anyone still do that?

Miss those autumn mullet runs!