The Prime Minister says.

The richness catastrophe that has turned into pristine south -Australian waters, toxic green and suffocated masses of maritime life, is a “natural disaster”, the State Prime Minister said.

Flowering algae – a rapid increase in the algae population in water systems – has been spreading since March and is now twice as much than the country’s capital.

The federal government has submitted a $ 14 million aid package ($ 9 million; 6.7 million pounds), but refused to appoint a natural disaster – a term commonly used for cyclones, floods and shrubs and causing a greater response.

Authorities say more than 400 species of sea life have been killed and local industries are suffering.

Flowering algae naturally occurs, but caused by ocean warming, sea thermal waves and nutrient pollution – all the immediate result of climate change.

“This is a natural catastrophe and should be recognized as … I think politicians can do a service when they enter the technique,” said South Australian Prime Minister Peter Malinskas on Tuesday.

It has announced that its government would comply with the financing of the federal government of $ 14 million, and the money on research, cleaning and industry support measures.

Senator Greens for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Yang is one of those who openly criticize the federal government, accusing them of insufficient situation.

“If this toxic flowering aroma was applied to the chaos on Bondy’s beach or on the northern shore in Sydney, the Prime Minister would already be on the beach,” she said.

However, the Minister of the Federal Environment Murray Wat said Monday said that, while thriving and its consequences were “incredibly disturbing”, the catastrophe did not correspond to the definition of a natural catastrophe in accordance with the laws of the country.

Blooming – which now stretches from the crown to the York Peninsula, an area that is double the size of the Australian metropolitan territory – reduces the local environment and the lining of the coastline with dead wildlife.

“It’s like a horror movie for fish,” ” Brad Martin – with Ozfish, a non -profit organization that protects fishing places – told the BBC in May.

But the event also applies chaos on the local economy. Representatives of the fishing industry say some of their members had no profit for at least three months.

“I have fishermen on the phone,” said Ian Mitchell, who works as a mediator between fishermen and retailers, “ABC said.