As the State Opposition calls for a summer plan to deal with the algal bloom devastating South Australian beaches, the government has launched a new phone hotline.

The new algal bloom phone hotline opens on Friday so South Australians can get “accurate, timely and consistent information about the algal bloom affecting parts of South Australia”.

It was announced during the latest algal bloom update with Federal Environment Minister Murray Watt, Premier Peter Malinauskas and newly minted state Environment Minister Lucy Hood.

SARDI executive director Professor Mike Steer said the bloom was “still persisting in the areas predominantly around the metropolitan coastline”.

He said the most high-density area of the bloom was from the northern Gulf of St Vincent down to Brighton.

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