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Date: May 28, 2021 at 21:19:26
From: kay.so.or, [DNS_Address]
Subject: 'Sea snot' is clogging up Turkey's coasts, suffocating marine life, an |
URL: https://news.yahoo.com/sea-snot-clogging-turkeys-coasts-175743678.html |
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Morgan McFall-Johnsen
Fri, May 28, 2021, 10:57 AM·3 min read
sea snot turkey coast dock harbor sea of marmara
A drone photo shows sea snot near the Maltepe, Kadikoy, and Adalar districts of Istanbul, Turkey on May 2, 2021. Lokman Akkaya/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images
A goopy substance called sea snot has been clogging Turkish coasts in the Sea of Marmara for months.
The mucus has been filling fishing nets, suffocating coral, and killing marine life.
Climate change and fertilizer runoff may be fueling the algae boom that's behind the sea snot.
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Blankets of a goopy, camel-colored substance have been accumulating in the water off Turkey's coast for months.
The goop, called marine mucilage or "sea snot," is covering so much of the coastline along the Sea of Marmara that people can no longer fish there. The sea snot formations can get up to 100 feet (30 meters) deep, according to the Turkish news site Cumhuriyet.
The sea snot fills fishing nets and weighs them down - one fisherman told Cumhuriyet that nets have been bursting from the weight of the mucus. A fishery co-op leader said people were barely pulling in a fifth of the fish they hauled at this time last year.
Marine mucilage is a goopy discharge of protein, carbohydrates, and fat from microscopic algae called phytoplankton. The substance was documented in the Sea of Marmara for the first time in 2007, as researchers at Istanbul University reported in 2008.
Normally, sea snot is not a problem, but when phytoplankton grow out of control, the goop can overpower marine ecosystems. This can wreak ecological havoc, since the substance can harbor bacteria like E Coli and ensnare or suffocate marine life. Eventually, the snot sinks to the sea floor, where it can blanket coral and suffocate them, too.
Since phytoplankton thrive in warm water, scientists suspect that climate change is fueling the new sea-snot crisis. Runoff from nitrogen- and phosphorous-rich fertilizer and sewage could also be causing an explosion in the phytoplankton population.
"We are experiencing the visible effects of climate change, and adaptation requires an overhaul of our habitual practices. We must initiate a full-scale effort to adapt," Mustafa Sarı, dean of Bandırma Onyedi Eylül University's maritime faculty, told The Guardian.
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Date: June 07, 2021 at 23:56:12
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: 'Sea snot' is clogging up Turkey's coasts, suffocating marine... |
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJCvq7GgUQU |
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Here is youtube clip on the topic, it's only 2:19 minutes long...so sad.
Al Jazeera English
An outbreak of algae in the sea of Marmara in Turkey is alarming scientists.
The slime has grown so much that it is threatening wildlife, local businesses, and the environment.
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Date: June 09, 2021 at 13:31:19
From: Daisy Lionheart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Sea of Marmara |
URL: https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.7HXSN7EGpqeUkCpVz5dwzwHaKI&pid=Api |
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Here's a website with a bit of history and
location.
Click on MARMARA for more info and images.
Yes...very sad!
https://tse1.mm.bing.net/th?
id=OIP.7HXSN7EGpqeUkCpVz5dwzwHaKI&pid=Api
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Date: June 09, 2021 at 17:47:51
From: Eve, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Sea of Marmara |
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All your link leads me to is a cartoon image of a smarmy
dude ...is it a secret coded message? ;0)
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Date: June 09, 2021 at 19:30:10
From: Daisy Lionheart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Sea of Marmara |
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Sorry about that, LOL, that is Snidley Whiplash,
which I posted to Nevada a few days ago.
The link I thought I was including in my Marmara
post, didn't 'take'... I'll try again, but for
some reason I have to type it in the link box...
the site won't let me copy and paste it...keep
getting a pop-up that it "Already exists", but
it's nowhere??? Hmmm...
↘(Doesn't have the www.https://)↙
mapcarta.com/Troy_(Turkey)
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