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Worst Year Ever For Rotting Algae on French Coast
At this time of year, with summer starting to kick in around Europe, the amount of tourists having holidays or day trips to France is extremely high. With superb beaches, cheap food, and great weather, France tends to be a very popular destination for short breaks and day trips.
However instead of being full of tourists. The beaches are plagued by, potentially deadly, rotting algae. Tonnes of the rotting algae has been washed up along miles of the northern France coastline. Normally the algae can be found within the sea and it's not harmful, however, as it begins to wash up, it rots and releases deadly toxic fumes.
Since the algae began washing up, a man has been taken seriously ill after inhaling some of the algae fumes. The 27 year old vet was riding his horse when the horse collapsed and died within minutes after inhaling the fumes, the man then had to be dragged out of metre deep algae.
Some of the councils that have been hit by the deadly algae are investing thousands of Euros in an attempt to rid the beaches of the algae. However, with over 70 reported beaches being affected this year, making it the worst year so far, it's a very difficult job to keep going. No doubt this news will have a big effect on French tourism as many tourists are being warned away from the dangerous beaches.
People visiting for short breaks won't be the only people turned off by the beaches. People who own holiday homes out there may decide against visiting this year if they can't visit the beaches. It won't just be the French tourism that will lose money, the holiday home owners will also because they still end up paying for their French home insurance despite not actually visiting the house this year.
Insurance for holiday homes is definitely not cheap and if you are not able to get the benefit out of your second home during the summer, it can feel like a great waste of money. Of course some holiday home owners will still decide to visit, despite the algae, just so they don't waste money on items like insurance for second homes.
Many environmentalists blame pollution from farming that caused the algae to wash up on shore. Their argument is that the algae is rotting and being washed up because harmful materials from the farming get into the sea and effect the algae. I'll be waiting to see what effect this algae will have on the French tourism.
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