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[-] fizzle@quokk.au 8 points 2 weeks ago

I assumed it was a generated image.

At the very least, the water is too green.

If it happens to be legit, no they're not scooping algae because they don't have anything to scoop it into.

That said, during algal blooms in estuaries et cetera physically removing it is part of the process. If a healthy estuary is free of whatever variety of algae, but it gets infested somehow for example due to fertiliser run off from farms, then stopping the fertiliser may not be enough to solve the problem because the estuary is clogged up with algae.

[-] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It looks too blown out for a professional photograph. Looks like AI slop to me.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I think they are scooping out the dead algae so it isn't food or doesn't clog pumps/filters

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