Sea slugs washed ashore in their thousands - low salt content blamed

[rooster59]

Sea slugs washed ashore in their thousands - low salt content blamed

 

Image: Daily News

 

The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources reported that thousands of "pling talay" - known in English as sea cucumbers or sea slugs - had died and been washed ashore in Chanthaburi.

 

It happened at a beach called Bang Kachai in the Laem Singh area of the eastern Thai province.

 

Some 300 meters of the beach was littered with the dead creatures.

 

Tests have revealed that the likely reason for the event was an unusually low salt content in the water due to freshwater from monsoon rains creating a temporary imbalance that the creatures were unable to overcome.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[jak2002003]

That one sea cucumber picked up by the farang diver and all the fuss that created suddenly seems rather insignificant compared to this scene.

 

These creatures coped with freshwater from seasonal monsoon rains every year and yet this has not happened before....and no other marine creatures were affected?  Have the experts looked for traces of pesticides or chemicals in the dead sea cucumbers...because it is a good chance they died due to toxic agricultural chemical run off after the heavy rains. 

[Motoko]

sea slugs are not the same thing as sea cucumbers. The animals pictured are sea cucumbers.

[Cake Monster]

Sea Slugs - from the Ocean - low Salt 

Oceans Salt concentration diluted by Rain water run off into the Ocean.

What Tosh

[BritManToo]

6 hours ago, rooster59 said:

sea cucumbers or sea slugs - had died and been washed ashore in Chanthaburi.

Don't touch them, don't pick 'em up ........... that's jail and deportation! 

[tifino]

2 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

Don't touch them, don't pick 'em up ........... that's jail and deportation! 

yeah... you'd definitely get slugged for takin' them... 

[worgeordie]

More likely pollution in the water, well on the bottom,sea cucumbers

shift sand to obtain food, maybe that's why only they died and not

any other sea creatures.

regards worgeordie

[Geoffggi]

Maybe the came out in support of the people wrongly criminalised by silly people ............LOL

[opalred]

someone is slow or lazy/ sun dry them big money in china 

[connda]

See!  Two dirty farangs touched a sea cucumber and this happens!!!  ????

[digger70]

3 hours ago, Motoko said:

sea slugs are not the same thing as sea cucumbers. The animals pictured are sea cucumbers.

Still same but different .

[Grusa]

Try sprinkling salt on a land slug, or snail. Cruel but interesting. Good way to deter or get rid of them. (The Froggies would just eat them).

 

 

 

[NeoDinosaw]

5 hours ago, Cake Monster said:

Sea Slugs - from the Ocean - low Salt 

Oceans Salt concentration diluted by Rain water run off into the Ocean.

What Tosh

Sea cucumbers are stenohaline echinoderms and cannot stand a drop in salinity  ..................  so the original article was the correct.

[NeoDinosaw]

3 hours ago, Grusa said:

Try sprinkling salt on a land slug, or snail. Cruel but interesting. Good way to deter or get rid of them. (The Froggies would just eat them).

 

Sea cucumbers are a delicacy in East Asian countries !!

 

 

[hotchilli]

21 hours ago, rooster59 said:

Sea slugs washed ashore in their thousands - low salt content blamed

For gods sake don't pick one up.... you'll go to prison or be deported.

[LukKrueng]

11 hours ago, NeoDinosaw said:

Sea cucumbers are stenohaline echinoderms and cannot stand a drop in salinity  ..................  so the original article was the correct.

Yeah, but you can't argue with ALL the marine biologists on this forum, can you? 

[impulse]

Talk about an all you can eat buffet...

 

Shame there's no tourists with buckets full.  What a waste.

 

 

[gomangosteen]

Some context to the environment being discussed. The Chanthaburi river meets the Gulf at Paknam Laem Sing. It's a huge flow of water, and Laem Sing beach immediately to the south (right in photo below) of the river mouth is generally unsuitable for swimming due to the silt from the river flow