Salinities in some normally-closed estuaries in the central south coast of Western Australia are now frequently becoming highly elevated. This is due to: (1) high evaporation rates in water volumes that, by summer, are already low as a result of atypically dry winters; and (2) increased salt run-o¡ following vegetation clearing in the catchments. A few black bream (Acanthopagrus butcheri) died ...