Bad news and good pictures

[chriscurtis]

I just read this depressing article from attendees at a meeting of the NOAA's U.S. Coral Reef Task Force.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/25/coral.threat.ap/index.html

But when I went to the NOAA's website to read more, I found their coral reef picture page, which cheered me up a bit.

http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/reef/

It almost makes you want to argue we should be taking more corals off the reefs for our tanks since that way we'd have a repository of them when they're wiped out in the wild. :idea:

 

[kwl1763]

@chriscurtis wrote:

I think that this is somewhat true but not at will! We need a harvesting plan. Putting them in the retail market is not the answer as 99.9% just die.

I think this will become super important in the next 10-20 years.

 

[Bayou]

It would be interesting if oranizations/clubs could Adopt a Reef kinda like the Adopt a Highway program the state uses to keep the highways clean.
Clubs could donate native corals or money to restore the reefs.
I'm sure it would be way too complicated to actually get done - but it would be really cool to dive a reef and see an underwater sign reading "Next 100 meters adopted by DFWMAS"
I would donate some frags for that!