DEAR Editor,-
Along the South Coast, we have a series of tidal swimming pools. These very cleverly designed structures (which were built many years ago) are totally reliant on the sea for things like filling up with water and filtration. If not interfered with by man, they usually contain a wonderful variety of sea life including fish, oysters, mussels, crabs, sea urchins, flat worms, sea slugs, to name but a few. When man interferes in this natural cycle, as happened at the Manaba tidal pool in early December, and empties the pool of sea water, all these wonderful sea creatures die and the stench is unbelievable. While Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife is very happy to prosecute schoolboys for catching a crayfish over the limit, it does nothing about those who have blatantly killed a large quantity of marine life.
In the normal course of events when this criminal act is perpetrated it normally lasts only a few days before we get another spring high tide and large swells to refill the pool and the cycle continues. This time the Manaba tidal pool has remained empty for almost the whole of December and is still empty as I write this on January 12. Thus, all those residents and holidaymakers who would have kept the tidal pool fully occupied during this peak holiday season have had to make do with a sandpit instead of a tidal pool.
Surely the time has come to name and shame those at the municipality who are responsible?
IAMT ROUBLED
Uvongo
