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| March 01, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Financial Times Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Only about 10 percent of the crayfish that walked out of the sea onto the beach at Elands Bay on the Cape West Coast on Thursday were saved, chief marine conservation inspector Andries Visser said on Friday. About 1000 tons of kreef, as they are locally known in the Western Cape, beached because of a lack of oxygen in the water caused by rotting plankton. The rotting plankton is the source of the phenomenon known as red tide. Visser said SA Navy personnel from Saldanha were presently sorting out the dead crayfish from the live. Live crayfish were ...

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