Warning for Spencer Gulf
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Spencer Gulf ... warnings of environmental collapse. (user submitted, file photo: Jim Begley)
The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI) says the Spencer Gulf could face environmental collapse if current knowledge of the ecosystem is not improved.
A two-day symposium on the gulf is being held in Adelaide, to brief researchers on the past 30 years of scientific data and the future ecological challenges the gulf is likely to face.
Dr Scoresby Shepherd says there are many areas that need to be explored.
"The desalination proposals, the increasing use industrial use of the waters of the gulf and so on, these are all questions that we've got to examine very carefully because we want to make sure that we manage the system in the best way possible," he said.
"We know a lot about bits and pieces but we've never tried to put all these bits and pieces together to make a comprehensive story, and our long term aim of course is to gather information about all these aspects of the system and put them together to make up a comprehensive story."
