Red Tide update

July 22nd, 2012

Speaking to a diver who was diving last week at Saint John’s Point in south Donegal. He found hundreds of dead Sea Urchins and around 20 dead Red Gurnards on the bottom. Any other fish he saw were “gulping”.
Yesterday he was diving on the Limeburner rock and saw a large Thornback Ray and a Tub Gurnard sitting on the rock around the 5 metre mark.
However, the top 8 metres of water are now clear and the plankton is thinning because divers are getting some ambient light on the bottom.

Start of the end?