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🌊 Marine Ecosystem at Tata Chemicals' Mithapur Discharge Point Found Healthy & Productive

- Marine ecosystem at Mithapur discharge point found healthy, stable, productive (CSIR-CSMCRI study)

- 637 birds across 40 species recorded, including migratory Central Asian Flyway species

- Nearest discharge point recorded highest bird abundance: ~250 Greater Flamingos

- Plankton community: 22 phytoplankton, 23 zooplankton species – balanced food web

- Mangrove stands (Avicennia marina) healthy, providing shoreline stabilization and habitat

- Seawater quality (pH, salinity, DO, BOD) within healthy coastal marine ranges

- Field studies conducted in Dec 2025 and May 2026

- Report released in August 2026

- Study covered 10 km radius of discharge point in Gulf of Kutch