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Related: About this forumA thick blanket of 'sea snot' is wreaking havoc on Turkey's coast
For months, Turkish fishermen in the Sea of Marmara have been running into a problem: They cant catch fish.
Thats because a thick, viscous substance known colloquially as sea snot is floating on the waters surface, clogging up their nets and raising doubts about whether fish found in the inland sea would actually be safe to eat.
Scientists say that the unpleasant-looking mucus is not a new phenomenon, but rising water temperatures caused by global warming may be making it worse. Pollution including agricultural and raw sewage runoff is also to blame.
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As the Guardian and numerous Turkish news outlets have reported, high levels of nitrogen and phosphorus in the Sea of Marmara, situated between the Black and Aegean Seas, are leading to an explosion of the phytoplankton populations that discharge sea snot. Though the mucus itself is not necessarily harmful, it can become a host to toxic microorganisms and dangerous bacteria such as E. coli. And when it forms a layer that covers the waters surface, it can set off a harmful chain of events, preventing fish from being able to breathe, causing mass die-offs, which in turn leads to plummeting oxygen levels that choke other forms of marine life.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/26/sea-snot/
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A thick blanket of 'sea snot' is wreaking havoc on Turkey's coast (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
May 2021
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msongs
(67,420 posts)1. paywall. account required nt
underpants
(182,832 posts)2. Mmmm sea snot
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)3. Good thing they've got a honest rational president to deal with it, not an authoritarian demagogue
Oh, wait.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)4. We are killing the planet
mountain grammy
(26,626 posts)5. I'm sure Erdogan will get right on it..