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tl;dr:
in Brittany, seaweed appears in huge amounts as nitrates pollute the sea, courtesy of the pork industry.
as it rots, hydrogen sulfide is produced.
hydrogen sulfide stinks. but more hydrogen sulfide stinks less, as it starts to numb your olfactory sense. then it kills.
edit: apparently you wont see lethal concentrations way above the weed, but break through the crust and you can get a lethal whiff
There was an accident in a german tannery lately with 5 casualties
Thank you for the summary
I heard once at least that no toxic/poisonous seaweed grows in the ocean north of, what the 35th parallel was it?
Maybe that's just the west coast of North America though, the water is cold up and down it. Idk about cyanobacteria though. We have that in fresh water at 42 lattitude so idk.
I don't know about the 35th parallel thing either way, but I don't think it matters here. The seaweed itself isn't normally poisonous, it's actually edible to humans and tastes pretty good. The issue here is what happens when it starts rotting in large quantities
That is what I meant to say, it's all edible above a certain latitude, at least in the northern pacific, but idk.
That doesn't follow for fresh water, Lake Eerie gets poison algae blooms, and or cyanobacteria, all the time, from farm runoff and livestock.
Everywhere in the US is getting worse, they cleaned it up after the Clean Water Act in the 1970s, after the Cuyohoga river was it caught on fire, which is near cleveland, then just the past decade or so stopped enforcing it even more, gave exemptions to factory farms, all sorts of stuff.
It's way worse than just fertilizer though, they use sewage on the fields, which ok, feses makes good fertilizer, but the sewage systems they take it from are mixed with industrial waste. They are spreading these toxins on their fields, including a lot of pfas, and also doing so in improper ways without neither state nor federal pushback, such as spreading it on top of the snow, at which point a good rain washes it downstream.
Long story short, it's a huge problem here too, one we fixed, then let get bad again, so people could make just a little bit more money.