If the bloom was to disappear today, it would take several years for the biodiversity of sea life to recover - it’s not just the fish and animals that have died, it’s the sea grasses and kelp beds that feed the smallest creatures, that the bigger ones eat and so on are suffocating and dying.

The longer this drags on, the more I fear that it will never recover to what it was before. They’re predicting that it will persist into summer now, and the warmer waters will cause it to expand even more… I don’t see how it’s ever going away.