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IN view of the widespread effects of Zostera (sea-grass and eel-grass) disease and the interest which it has aroused, the following brief note appears to be worthy of publication. Zostera was first noticed to be affected by some sort of trouble in Castle Haven during the summer of 1932, when the extensive meadows near and north of Castle-townshend were much less luxuriant than usual. (Just off Castletownshend the plants are usually extremely robust and of great length.) By the summer of 1933 the meadows had vanished. At Lough Ine the various beds were unaffected until late in 1933. By December those in fairly deep water between the Coosh and the mainland, in the southern region of Barloge Creek and the two large meadows in Southern's Bay just below the Rapids, which are exposed at very low water, were very worn in appearance. By the middle of February this year they had disappeared, as had those which formerly all but covered the floor of the inner part of the Goleen, except for their dead remains. At the end of March it was found that a further bed had completely disappeared from the Ballyally side of the Coosh. By this time new growth had started in the Goleen and very soon became vigorous, whilst by the end of April there was strong growth over large areas in Barloge Creek, but no sign of any in Southern's Bay.
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RENOUF, L. Zostera Disease on the Coast of County Cork, I.F.S. Nature 133, 912 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133912b0
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