http://irishmarinelife.com/2010/01/24/shellfish-on-bettystown-beach/ inshore offshore play science coral-reefs crabs ag snámh news think imeachtaí Thu, 19 Aug 2010 22:36:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://irishmarinelife.com/2010/01/24/shellfish-on-bettystown-beach/#comment-48 Gisela Lapot Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:08:16 +0000 http://irishmarinelife.com/?p=233#comment-48 I had been at Bettystown beach on Sat Jan 16th and observed exactley what your observer is describing: thousands of a large species of shellfish, oval like mussels but lighter in colour, were washed up on the shore. I walked there shortly after the tide started retreating. The amount of these shellfish was shoking and horrifying as they were all in the process of dying, openeing up and having there closing mussles hanging out like a tongue. I am normally not walking that beach (I live in Skerries) and have not met anyone so far who was witness of this scene as well. Alas I did not carry a camera with me. Very much interested in learning how it came to this enormous dying of shellfish. Gisela I had been at Bettystown beach on Sat Jan 16th and observed exactley what your observer is describing: thousands of a large species of shellfish, oval like mussels but lighter in colour, were washed up on the shore. I walked there shortly after the tide started retreating. The amount of these shellfish was shoking and horrifying as they were all in the process of dying, openeing up and having there closing mussles hanging out like a tongue. I am normally not walking that beach (I live in Skerries) and have not met anyone so far who was witness of this scene as well. Alas I did not carry a camera with me. Very much interested in learning how it came to this enormous dying of shellfish.
Gisela

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