Studlands great disappearing Seahorse mystery finally explained - and it wasn't the boats!

[oldharry]

A final explanation why Seahorses disappear from Studlànd and population varies so much. And it's Nothing to do with boats or anchors. Shock! Horror!

Fish containing 38 seahorses found in Poole

 

[Iliade]

Good grief! Who would have thought it?

 

[dunedin]

Surely the fish should be adhering to the Voluntary No Eating order applied to Studland Bay.

 

[Boathook]

So it isn't the convoluting ? rays after all !

 

[Tranona]

I shall check out the black bream when I go to Greenslades this morning to get my Christmas lobsters. I sometimes have locally caught bream but don't recall finding much in their stomachs, maybe because they are rather small.

 

[doug748]

"In Dorset, a black bream caught at Poole Bay contained 38 seahorses – which have few predators as they are well camouflaged – in a case that baffled experts."


We assume they are baffled as to how they can blame it on global warming or leisure boats.

 

[oldharry]

They actually have quite a few predators. Most larger fish will take them if they can!

 

[Sandy]

Has the Sea Horse Trust been advised?

 

[SC35]

Could be offered in posh restaurants as a Bream and Seahorse combo with a lemon and garlic sauce?

 

[Chiara’s slave]

Could be offered in posh restaurants as a Bream and Seahorse combo with a lemon and garlic sauce?

A 2 fish bake? Just need to get a tuna to eat the bream, and a shark to eat the tuna. Then it’ll be proper posh.

 

[Stemar]

A 2 fish bake? Just need to get a tuna to eat the bream, and a shark to eat the tuna. Then it’ll be proper posh.

I think I could come up with a more useful menu for the shark...

 

[oldharry]

Has the Sea Horse Trust been advised?

NGM is reportedly 'furious'. Whether with the greedy fish, or because his cover is blown... or both?

 

[Bilgediver]

NGM is reportedly 'furious'. Whether with the greedy fish, or because his cover is blown... or both?

 

[chrishscorp]

Could be offered in posh restaurants as a Bream and Seahorse combo with a lemon and garlic sauce?

Garnished with some crispy fried seagrass

 

[ylop]

"In Dorset, a black bream caught at Poole Bay contained 38 seahorses – which have few predators as they are well camouflaged – in a case that baffled experts."

Doesn’t that actually support the argument for protecting the habitat, without which these monsters will consume all the seahorses? (I actually have no opinion on studland bay - but I don’t think anyone ever suggested anchors were squashing sea horses directly!)

 

[Daydream believer]

I think that the argument could be, that by creating such zones, it allows the greenies a better chance to study nature, operating on its own & how it inter reacts with itself, without the excesses of the human element.
I do not think it is to help us decide how much batter to put on the sea bream & whether we can put seahorse on the menue

 

[chrishscorp]

Doesn’t that actually support the argument for protecting the habitat, without which these monsters will consume all the seahorses? (I actually have no opinion on studland bay - but I don’t think anyone ever suggested anchors were squashing sea horses directly!)

Sea horses are all over the place but such is the hoo har over them when they are spotted they are thrown back in to the sea and politely ignored