Euphasids,( Northern Krill) in the Strand Line on Taylor beach

Today  an event that I had never seen before occurred on Taylor Beach.  Millions of tiny Euphasids or Krill ended up on a 600 metre section of the beach North of Taylor Road . Many of the krill were still alive , but the majority were dead and they were accumulating as the tide came in. I have no idea what the cause of this is, but it was reported to have happened to the north on Witty’s Beach as well today.

 

Northern krill (Meganyctiphanes norvegica)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Eucarida
Order: Euphausiacea
Dana, 1852