The BBC is not reporting that Lord How Island dumps its rubbish at sea.

The media is not reporting that small fish seagrass nurseries on the south western Pacific Ocean coast of Australia, such as in Botany Bay and Sydney Harbour and Pittwater, are virtually 99 percent destroyed and are no longer supplying food for ocean animals.

Lord Howe Island cannot produce enough food for SW Pacific fish and also local nesting birds. Lord Howe Island has mostly steep rocky coast and only one small lagoon.
Seagrass depends on calm waters. Small fish depend on seagrass nurseries before they swim to sea and become food for ocean animals.

Where are the schools of small fish with flocks of birds diving and feeding, that we used to see?

The problem is primary starvation due to food deprivation due to seagrass devastation caused by algae proliferated by sewage nutrient pollution. Look at the white crust covering beached seagrass leaf, its from epiphyte growth that blocks sunlight essential for seagrass photosynthesis.

Hungry animals eat almost anything.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44579422

JF Aus,
It is not just small young fish that suffer from decimation of sea grass beds. Here, in Hervey Bay, in 1992, because of floods and a cyclone Hundreds of Dugongs died from stavation because of damage to the sea grass beds. Apparently there were Dugong bodies washed up everywhere.

As I understand it the normal population of Dugongs in Hervey Bay is about 1000 give or take. I will contact the National Parks to find out if the population has recovered.

UNfortunately, for the likes of Pittwater, Sydney and Botany Bays the future of sea grass beds there looks bleak.

I should have added. This is an unintended consequence of increased population due to high immigration rates. More destruction of our enviroment.

JFAus

Here is a subject that matters. The fake news is that ocean sewage outfalls cause no harm to the environment.

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Diver Dan,

Are you trying to be funny or are breathing something extra in the air from your tank.

http://deadzonesjw.weebly.com/baltic-sea.html

If you think that news is “fake” news, it hardly matters that it might be “incomplete”. And, why do you think that this story is either fake or incomplete? Is it because the reporter has not reported what you think she should have reported. The article is about the effects of plastic bags on birdlife - nothing ‘fake’ about that. The stuff that you are talking about was simply not part of her remit.