On the shores of the Marmara Sea from the side of Turkey, a thick gray-brown substance was messed up with a smell of rotten eggs. It is reported by the newspaper ABC.
Scientists nicknamed this foam “sea snot”. She has already led to the death of many marine inhabitants. Such a phenomenon is the result of the vital activity of marine organisms, which appeared due to the flowering of algae. But this year it has reached a record scale: the stain is visible even from the space. Pictures in Twitter published Istanbul Technical University. According to experts, the cause was the contamination and global warming, which led to the rapid growth of algae.
Save the coast from the invasion of algae promised Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to him, the reason lies in unknown waste, which are reset from the Marmara Sea. He instructed the Ministry of Environment and Urbanism to check the wastewater and called for ecologists to develop a joint pest control plan.
Flowering algae has already taken a lot of problems like fishermen, which, due to viscous mucus, cannot sail from the shore and ecologists. According to scientists, the dense layer of algae does not give the sunlight to penetrate into the thickness of the water, which leads to the death of fish, snails and other marine inhabitants.