Yea they used to be chockablock with small fish, tarwine, baby snapper, little rat sambos, wrasse, box fish and various other small fish & sea horses & nudibranches. Ive done dive training there they used to hand out eggs to crack under water & all the fish would swarm around you was pretty cool for new divers, guess there wont be much of that going on for a while now.
I dived Palm Beach jetty to see to what extent the kill is in this area. There was a lot dead blue swimmer crabs, but then, I also saw a heap of live crabs.
I saw a lot of dead puffer fish, apparently that is bad thing
I did see a heap of bream, butter fish, herring and other sea life swimming around, looked quite normal in fact.
This fish kill has to be a chemical spill from the Kwinana strip or a vessel, or, elevated salt from the De-sal plant, or as a consequence of global warming, increased water temperatures
Willy
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luke george
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never much on them
never much on them
MandurahMatt
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Yea they used to be
Yea they used to be chockablock with small fish, tarwine, baby snapper, little rat sambos, wrasse, box fish and various other small fish & sea horses & nudibranches. Ive done dive training there they used to hand out eggs to crack under water & all the fish would swarm around you was pretty cool for new divers, guess there wont be much of that going on for a while now.
Bewdey Fellaz
grantarctic1
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Yep
Yep , in the article they said all the seahorse were gone and even the fan worms were dead.
As far as not much ever being on them, As Matt said, plenty of small species on them all the time if you took the time to look.
sea-kem
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Jesus Christ, how the hell
Jesus Christ, how the hell can this be a natural event.
Love the West!
Da pirate
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Seen it too !!
Seen that too corks !!! The bloke was saying
on the dive there was nothing !!! But he did
say he saw a box fish barley swiming with it's
eyes milked over as if it had caterax or somthing
Simular !!! Just can't believe this happening !!
Been told on another thread that too shutup about
it and let the authorities do there job !!!
F#%^k that I say !! Like there dealing with
it now !!! Must be a big lid there tryn to drop
on it !!
Willy
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Palm Beach Jetty
I dived Palm Beach jetty to see to what extent the kill is in this area. There was a lot dead blue swimmer crabs, but then, I also saw a heap of live crabs.
I saw a lot of dead puffer fish, apparently that is bad thing
I did see a heap of bream, butter fish, herring and other sea life swimming around, looked quite normal in fact.
This fish kill has to be a chemical spill from the Kwinana strip or a vessel, or, elevated salt from the De-sal plant, or as a consequence of global warming, increased water temperatures
Willy