[Coral-List] photo of large anchor(chain) damage
John Ware
jware at erols.com
Tue Mar 16 12:22:12 EST 2004
Dear List:
Me too. As long as we are asking for things, I would like to have images of
coral-reef damage due to destructive fishing practices such as muro-ami
(sp?) fishing, blast fishing, or chain dragging (practice prior to
netting). I use images such as these in public presentations.
John Ware
Paul Hoetjes wrote:
> Dear Coral List members,
>
> For a presentation I am looking for (a) photo(s) documenting bottom
> damage caused by the large anchors of tankers or other large vessels and
> their long heavy chains, as such ships swing around on their anchors and
> the heavy chain plows through the bottom in a semi-circle. Even on sandy
> or rubble bottom, this kind of damage will over time completely destroy
> the fisheries in such areas, not to mention coral reef areas. Not only
> will any structural complexity be destroyed, but the constant tearing up
> of even sandy bottoms will destroy the algal flora established on such
> bottoms (and anything else growing there such as sea grass or
> gorgonians) and put an end to its being used by algae grazing conch as a
> feeding ground.
>
> I'm hoping someone has a (digital) picture of such damage on a rubble or
> sand bottom, that I might use.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul Hoetjes
>
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