Bright green slick in Belmore Basin is blue-green algae known as 'sea sawdust'

By Ben Langford
February 18 2017 - 9:00am
Mystery gunk: The bright green slick which appeared in Wollongong Harbour on Thursday morning is algae. Picture: Adam McLean
Mystery gunk: The bright green slick which appeared in Wollongong Harbour on Thursday morning is algae. Picture: Adam McLean

The sickly green slick spotted on Thursday in Wollongong’s Belmore Basin is not ocean spawn but “sea sawdust”, a type of blue-green algae.

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