brown scum on ocean near rotto
Submitted by al_t on Sun, 2013-02-03 10:49
hi, was out fishing at the FADs yesterday and came back via the west end....on the way back we passed through large areas of what looked like brown patches floating on the serface...any body know what it is...thoughts at this stage is coral spawn, kelp weed seeding or pollen blown out by the easterlies...there was heaps of it and was quite heavy around rotto...
cheers
Al
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yep
its coral jizz
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chris raff
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Brown algae ...i think was
Brown algae ...i think was the consensus on a previous thread , or possibly people crapping themselves whilst swimming off rotto ...
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al_t
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thanks guys...i did try to
thanks guys...i did try to search the site before i posted but on my phone so was a bit hard.....that was about the highlight of the day too...the fishing was....well lets say less than average...
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Yep. Coral spawn. Really
Yep. Coral spawn. Really thick in some spots.
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Bunny
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Over here in Far North
Over here in Far North Queensland we get the same although I can't confirm without a photo etc. This is actually a nitrogen fixing Cyanobacteria called Trichodesmium.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichodesmium
It is commonly confused with what has been mentioned above. Not saying that's what you saw but we get it over here s lot at this time of year too.
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Bunny is all over it. Its not
Bunny is all over it. Its not coral spawn.
Plenty of it offshore of Hedland today too.
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Yea flying over headland
Yea flying over headland towards Xmas island was full of lines of , yep , I dont know but lots of it !!!
al_t
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yup
thats it Dodgy...nice one Bunny