Just a guess but a few f/w members have reported trouble in holding bottom in not very deep water due to a very strong current.
Could it bee that a strong warm current has come in close to the coast and this is what is causing the eels to get into trouble and die.
I don't know if the Leeuwin current t is a hot or cold current but it is one of which flows down the coast.
Nothing lives forever. if it was in that sewer they call the pond it is under standable. I think the wter in there is going stagnent. there have been i few seen at the ramp, not dead though, but just give it time. Ho wthe hell do people eat the crabs out of there without getting sock in beyond me. I know that there had been a sewerage over flow onto the beach at one stage, might be another one/
eels die in big numbers up north with low oxygen events from algal blooms/ coral spawn. They tend to blow up and float and can end up miles out to sea if its windy. Fish can leave an area but eels are very territorial and wont move so they die. Could it be that? Is the water warm down that way.
I have been sent lab reports taken by the city taken after the event. I also get get copies of the samples taken each month as a concerned resident. The latest sample shows ecoli bacteria levels 10 times higher than previous month. The WA Water corp had not discharged into the Pond area for several weeks while they undertook work at their holding drain along Forrestor Road. Prior to the fish deaths we had the bad storms with huge swells hitting the beach resulting in storm drain pumps being used. Unfortunately DPIRD who are carrying out the investigation have not taken samples below the sea bed in order to test sedimentary levels, as you can imaging the years that this water has not had a good flush the bacteria build up in the sea bed would be a real concern.
SpotHound
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Been reported
Fishereies were collecting the dead ones all last week for the lab to look at.
SeperateKnob
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Covid?
Covid?
little johnny
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Rex hunt back
Kissing fish and letting them go. Unusual just eels ?
Jackalchub
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Saw a few on the surface in
Saw a few on the surface in the 40s last week, can't say I've seen them up top too often
Scotte
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Which area?
Which area?
Jackalchub
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Mandurah Rocko
Mandurah Rocko
meglodon
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Warm water
Just a guess but a few f/w members have reported trouble in holding bottom in not very deep water due to a very strong current.
Could it bee that a strong warm current has come in close to the coast and this is what is causing the eels to get into trouble and die.
I don't know if the Leeuwin current t is a hot or cold current but it is one of which flows down the coast.
piscetor
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current
Leewuin current is hot that's what brings the mackies down from the north.
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little johnny
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Localised
Deaths ?
ranmar850
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What species of eels are they?
Your eef type, ie morays or greens, or the big eels (short-finned or long-finned) which migrate up to freshwater to breed and grow.
little johnny
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I don’t know
What type . Decent size ones
piscetor
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ells
Nothing lives forever. if it was in that sewer they call the pond it is under standable. I think the wter in there is going stagnent. there have been i few seen at the ramp, not dead though, but just give it time. Ho wthe hell do people eat the crabs out of there without getting sock in beyond me. I know that there had been a sewerage over flow onto the beach at one stage, might be another one/
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little johnny
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I remember that
Valve passing into drainage . Straight onto beach near wacky. Killed all the crabs
Rick
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Collection
Did read they have collected some for testing, not confident we will know the true results
Needs a good storm to flush it out, it stinks out there at the moment
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cruzy111
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low oxygen,
eels die in big numbers up north with low oxygen events from algal blooms/ coral spawn. They tend to blow up and float and can end up miles out to sea if its windy. Fish can leave an area but eels are very territorial and wont move so they die. Could it be that? Is the water warm down that way.
Tom M
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I have been sent lab reports
I have been sent lab reports taken by the city taken after the event. I also get get copies of the samples taken each month as a concerned resident. The latest sample shows ecoli bacteria levels 10 times higher than previous month. The WA Water corp had not discharged into the Pond area for several weeks while they undertook work at their holding drain along Forrestor Road. Prior to the fish deaths we had the bad storms with huge swells hitting the beach resulting in storm drain pumps being used. Unfortunately DPIRD who are carrying out the investigation have not taken samples below the sea bed in order to test sedimentary levels, as you can imaging the years that this water has not had a good flush the bacteria build up in the sea bed would be a real concern.
Tom M
meglodon
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Any news yet
On what has killed the eels, have there been any more wash up
little johnny
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Cheers tom
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