'fringe reefs' and fingerling fish: an unexpected coral restocking resource

[Sk8r]

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111110130100.htm

 

[doctorgori]

...but the Caribean reefs are fighting a uphill battle....the area is poor and stopping overfishing is going to be a loosing battle

Good info!!!

 

[billsreef]

They are forgetting a major difference between the factors causing coral loss between Moorea and the Caribbean reefs. One is a healthy undergoing heavy predation, the other an environmentally caused bleaching event creating unhealthy corals.

 

[elegance coral]

By comparison, the waters of the South Pacific are still pristine, and those of the Caribbean are human dumping grounds. We could drop millions of herbivores into the Caribbean and the environment still wouldn't be favorable to stony coral growth. If we could magically remove 90% of the algae from the reefs of the Caribbean, it wouldn't be stony corals that took its place. It would be some other organism that's better suited to higher nutrients, like sponges.