VICTIMS OF POISONOUS SEA FOODS
NKWCASTI.K, April 1.1; Ton tlioustind Noweaslle people lia\i . Leconie ill in recent montlis after eatm - prawns, oysters and other sea . foods according to the City ileaJth Oiiiee ■ 1 Dr. Shannon. Ile. elaims this has cost the sullVrer between £20,000 and £80, 000 in los; / ivages. Dr. Shannon has collected speeiinen ^ of sea food from Port Stephens and t h. / ! Myall lakes for exami nation. Dead/ j liream taken from the lakes were1/ ; found to have died from suffocation ^ because the oxygen in the sea water ha,;; been used up bv microscopic mariuv plankton — drifting' organic life, comnion at the closc of the liot weather. There was mr evidence that plankton | was liarmful to prawns or otiier shel! i fish. I
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Chronicle (Levin), 15 April 1947, Page 2
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