Fwd: Bleaching in the southwest Red Sea

[tim Daw]

A message I recieved from a marine biologist at the university of
Asmara. Eritrea included this about bleaching................


---Marco Pedulli  wrote:

> On a different note concerning bleaching we too have, unfortunately,
> experienced such phenomenon on the corals around Massawa recently. The
> water temperatures around the region of Massawa this past summer have
> been extremely on their high side (40 degree C ). The increase in 
> temperature is, therefore, most probably responsible for such
bleaching.
> Moreover, the degree of bleaching varied in deep and shallow reefs.
> The latter, with high ambient temperature, were as a result affected
more. 
> 
> Now that the "hot season" is over most corals sprang back to attain 
> their original state and have fully recovered while others have
unfortunately
> suffered prolonged elevated temperatures and were overgrown by algae.
> Biologists have visisted similar areas around the islands and around
> Assab but did not report bleaching at all. This showed that
bleaching was
> localized and restricted to the Massawa Area (Massawa Proper and
Green Island).
> 
> -- 
> Marco Pedulli,  MSc                     
> Department of Marine Biology & Fisheries
> University of Asmara
> P.O. Box 1220
> Asmara,  Eritrea                                
> 
> E-mail address:-  Marco at marine.uoa.edu.er
> Tel:-  (+291) -1- 16 19 26 ex 274 (Off.)
>        (+291) -1- 12 64 30 (Res.)
> Fax:-  (+291) -1- 16 22 36 
> 
> 
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