[Coral-List] Coral Reef Restoration with Fragmentation

Billy Causey Billy.Causey at noaa.gov
Thu Aug 7 19:52:29 EDT 2003


Todd,
What appeared to be an attempt to communicate excellent advice ... came across
incorrectly.  I suspect you wanted to say "without supervision" instead of
"with supervision."  It's a minor point ... but felt compelled to make it.
Billy Causey

"We do NOT recommend you attempt restoration work with supervision or training
from an experienced
coral restoration expert."



Todd Barber wrote:

> We have some coral transplant notes at www.artificialreefs.org
> However, the real training is documented in our training manuals and our
> training classes.  We have found it to be irresposible to share this
> technology only on the web as there is too much of a chance of abuse (and
> therefore death of corals or inapproprate restoration work).  Aquarium work
> certainly has contributed a great deal of expertise to the art and science
> of coral reef restoration, but there are a huge number of differences which
> must be factored in when doing open ocean work. We do NOT recommend you
> attempt restoration work with supervision or training from an experianced
> coral restoration expert.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Todd Barber
> Chairman, Reef Ball Foundation, Inc.
> President, Reef Ball Development Group, Ltd.
> 6916 22nd Street West
> Bradenton, FL 34207
> 941-752-0169 (Office)
> 941-752-1033 (Fax)
> 941-752-0338 (Personal)
> 941-720-7549 (Cell when traveling)
>
> reefball at reefball.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <fpl10 at free.fr>
> To: <Coral-List at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
> Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 3:21 AM
> Subject: [Coral-List] Coral Reef Restoration with Fragmentation
>
> > Dear All,
> >
> > Looks like some of you have a practical experience of Coral Reef
> restoration
> > using coral fragmentation. Is there some web pages where your
> experience(s) has
> > been described ?
> >
> > After years of coral propagation in aquariums, we are willing to use our
> diving
> > and propagation skills in Nature to restore some reefs we know, but we
> would
> > like to avoid all possible identified mistakes linked to such activity in
> > Nature.
> >
> > Thanks for any feedback and advices
> > Best Regards
> > Fabrice Poiraud-Lambert
> > Reefkeepers.net - President
> >
> >
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