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EPA
The NSW Environment Protection Authority (EPA) has ruled out pesticide as causing the recent deaths of beach worms at beaches on the NSW Mid North Coast.
Commercial fisherman reported dead beach worms on Yagon Beach, near Seal Rocks, on 3 June 2021.
Laboratory testing of beach worms, pipis, sea water and sand from this location has found no evidence of pesticide or algal toxins.
The Department of Primary Industries laboratory has also ruled out disease as a cause of the deaths.
The EPA was informed that National Parks and Wildlife Service had sprayed bitou bush at Yagon Beach with pesticides in May and June, however a review of tidal conditions, groundwater and beach recession has led the EPA to conclude that the beach worm mortality was caused by natural events.