Africa-Press – South-Africa. More than 80 pufferfish have washed ashore at a Cape Town beach, and Capetonians have been warned to steer clear of them.
The City of Cape Town said the pufferfish washed ashore on Long Beach in Simon’s Town on Wednesday.
Penguin rangers from Seaforth have been collecting and bagging the fish for proper disposal.
The City said in a statement:
It was unclear what caused the fish to wash ashore, the statement read.
The City said it will be monitoring beaches from Fish Hoek to Simon’s Town in the coming days. Any further pufferfish will be removed.
This time last year, the City removed almost 70 bags of dead pufferfish, weighing 200 kilograms, from beaches along the Muizenberg and Fish Hoek coast.
At the time, the cause of the large-scale washout was unclear. The Department of Environment, Forestry and Fisheries ruled out pollution or red-tide toxins as the cause of the beaching.
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