Along the beaches, where detergents were applied in large quantities to oil on the sand, thousands of sand eels remaining in the sand of the beaches must have been killed. Also some conger eels and small plaice, dabs, flounder and mullet were washed up dead or seen dead by divers in the gulleys adjacent to where spraying was being done, but the total numbers of dead seen ware to be counted in tens rather than hundreds and probably constituted only a very small proportion of the inshore population at the time