[Coral-List] Re: Coral-List Digest, Vol 20, Issue 16, Acropora transplants

Louis Sileo lou_sileo at usgs.gov
Thu Feb 24 17:12:29 EST 2005


Regarding Acropora transplants.  Transplanting coral might be a bad idea
unless you are absolutely certain the transplant does not have sub-clinical
pathogens.  You might introduce a devastating disease to a virgin region.

Lou Sileo
USGS, National Wildlife Health Center
lou_sileo at usgs.gov
608-270-2461


                                                                                                          
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Today's Topics:

   1. Acropora transplants (Gene Shinn)
   2. NOAA RELEASES REVISED FLORIDA KEYS SANCTUARY PLAN FOR        COMMENT
      (Cheva Heck)
   3. [SPAM] PANAMANIAN SHIP ASSESSED HALF MILLION DOLLARS         FOR
      CORAL DAMAGE  (Cheva Heck)
   4. Help with bleaching in Fiji - CoralWatch coral health        charts
      (Kylie McPherson)
   5. sea fan restoration after tsunami (Srisakul Piromvaragorn)
   6. Minor bleaching in the Marshalls (Dean Jacobson)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 16:02:15 -0500
From: Gene Shinn <eshinn at usgs.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] Acropora transplants
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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I transported Acropora from Miami to Bermuda, via air freight, back
in the 1960s. It was done in a plastic bag with a few inches of sea
water with an oxygen cap in the same way tropical fish were, and
probably still are transported. They fared well, but  it was
difficult to kill Acropora in the 1960s. You can forget about
transporting Acropora in the future if it should make it to the
endangered species list.  Do your research while you still can. Gene
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:03:59 -0500
From: "Cheva Heck" <Cheva.Heck at noaa.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] NOAA RELEASES REVISED FLORIDA KEYS SANCTUARY
             PLAN FOR          COMMENT
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NOAA 05-R410

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 15th, 2005

Contact: Cheva Heck
              Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
              305.292.0311, ext. 26
              305.304.0179 (cell)

                                         NOAA RELEASES REVISED FLORIDA
KEYS SANCTUARY PLAN FOR COMMENT

NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, announces the
availability of the draft revised management plan for the Florida Keys
National Marine Sanctuary for public review andcomment.  NOAA is an
agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

ìThe changes weíre proposing to the sanctuaryís management plan will
ensure that our management strategies are keeping pace with the
challenges facing our marine environment,î said sanctuary superintendent
Billy Causey.  ìWe encourage everyone who is interested in the future of
the Florida Keys coral reef ecosystem to review and comment on the
proposed revisions.î

Changes to the management plan include the addition of four new action
plans: science management and administration; natural resource damage
assessment and restoration; day-to-day sanctuary operations, including
administration, community outreach and policy coordination; and
evaluation of sanctuary activities.

The revised plan also calls for an increase in the number of enforcement
positions; larger mooring buoys in deeper water to accommodate larger
vessels; a focus on high priority infrastructure wastewater and
stormwater management projects; increased socioeconomic research
efforts; regional ecosystem research and monitoring; evaluation of
marine zone uses; and identification of possible regulatory changes to
ensure consistency with state regulations.

The document also outlines sanctuary accomplishments since its
designation in 1990 and actions in the original 1997 management plan
that have been completed. Major accomplishments include: a reduction in
large ship groundings; improved water quality protection; improved
response to vessel groundings and the restoration of damaged habitat;
efforts to protect maritime heritage resources; increasing the number of
mooring buoys; the marking of sanctuary zones; and improving waterway
marking.

NOAA will accept comments on the draft revised management plan through
April 15, 2005.  Copies of the draft revised management plan are
available by mail, at all three sanctuary offices, and on the sanctuary
web site at http://floridakeys.noaa.gov.  The sanctuary offices are a
located at: 216 Ann Street, Key West, (305) 292-0311; 5550 Overseas
Highway (gulfside), Marathon (follow road to main house at the end),
(305) 743-2437; and 95230 Overseas Highway (bayside), Key Largo, (305)
852-7717.

The sanctuary also will hold three public hearings on the revisions to
the plan.  The hearings will be open house format and participants may
come and go at any time. Staff will be available to explain changes to
the plan. Both oral and written comments will be accepted and a Spanish
translator will be available.  The hearing dates and locations are:

Monday, March 28, 2005; 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Monroe County Government Center, BOCC Meeting Room
2798 Overseas Highway (gulfside)

Tuesday, March 29, 2005; 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Key Largo Library Meeting Room
Mile Marker 101.4, Tradewinds Shopping Plaza (oceanside)

Wednesday, March 30, 2005; 4:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
Harvey Government Center Meeting Room
1200 Truman Avenue, corner of Truman and White streets, Key West

The National Marine Sanctuaries Act requires all sanctuaries to review
their management plans every five years.  In addition, the State of
Florida required a five year review of the sanctuary management plan as
part of its approval of the plan for state waters in 1997.  The
sanctuary held hearings in summer of 2001 to determine what revisions
were necessary. Sanctuary staff, advisory council members and others
formed working groups to develop plan revisions, which were approved by
the full sanctuary advisory council, NOAA and the State of Florida.
After the public comment period closes, NOAA will consider the comments
received and respond to them in the final document.

Designated in 1990, the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary protects
2,900 square nautical miles of coral reefs, seagrass meadows, hardbottom
communities, mangrove shorelines and mud and sand habitat. NOAAís
National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) and the State of Florida
jointly manage the sanctuary.  The NMSP seeks to increase the public
awareness of Americaís maritime heritage by conducting scientific
research, monitoring, exploration, and educational programs.  Today, 13
national marine sanctuaries encompass more than 18,000 square miles of
Americaís ocean and Great Lakes natural and cultural resources.

The NOAA Ocean Service (NOS; http://www.nos.noaa.gov) manages the NMSP,
and is dedicated to exploring, understanding, conserving, and restoring
the nationís coasts and oceans.  NOS balances environmental protection
with economic prosperity in fulfilling its mission of promoting safe
navigation, supporting coastal communities, sustaining coastal habitats,
and mitigating coastal hazards.
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Subject: [Coral-List] [SPAM] PANAMANIAN SHIP ASSESSED HALF MILLION
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:28:22 +1000
From: Kylie McPherson <k.mcpherson at uq.edu.au>
Subject: [Coral-List] Help with bleaching in Fiji - CoralWatch coral
             health            charts
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov, coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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Hi Ron

We have something that may be able to help you - we've developed colour
charts to monitor bleaching and they include a thermometer.  The CoralWatch

Coral Health Chart consists of a series of coloured areas representing the
most common coral colours.  Within each area, the brightness of the colours

is varied systematically to represent different stages of bleaching and
recovery.  Within species, each colour corresponds to a concentration of
symbiotic dinoflagellate.  In the field, you simply compare the colour of a

coral with the colours on the chart and record matching codes.

If you would like me to send you a chart (free of charge) please let me
know.

Cheers Kylie

Kylie McPherson
Research Project Manager
CoralWatch
Vision Touch and Hearing Research Centre
University of Queensland
Brisbane Queensland 4072 Australia

P  +61 7 3365 4063
F  +61 7 3365 4522

www.coralwatch.org
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>From: Ron Vave <s96007966 at student.usp.ac.fj>
>Subject: [Coral-List] bleaching in the yasawa islands (FIJI)
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>hello all. I'm here to report on coral bleaching on rocky patches within a
bay
>in the Yasawa Islands. This was part of a biological survey from the
17th-18th
>Feb 2005, have GPS positions BUT no temperature readings. Sorry about
that.
>Bleaching was noticeable from exposed reef flats down to depths of around
10m.
>Acropora digitifera, A. muricata, A. aspera, Goniastrea spp., Symphillia
spp.
>with around 80-90% of each colony was severely bleached. Pocillopora
>darmicornis, P. eydouxi, P. meandrina and P. verrucosa were present and
were
>not so badly affected by bleaching (less than 10% for each colony). thank
you,
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:42:08 +1000
From: Srisakul Piromvaragorn <srisakul.piromvaragorn at jcu.edu.au>
Subject: [Coral-List] sea fan restoration after tsunami
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 21:10:26 -0800 (PST)
From: Dean Jacobson <atolldino at yahoo.com>
Subject: [Coral-List] Minor bleaching in the Marshalls
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
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Greetings:
Majuro is currently suffering renewed minor bleaching
(first noticed on Feb 13 2005) restricted to the reef
flat (chiefly small Acropora spp, such as A.
digitifera).  Perhaps this is related to the "hotspot"
to the south.  While this sort of shallow bleaching
(upper half meter or less) is not unusual (we had
similar bleaching in 2000, 2002 and 2004) what is
novel is the season; previous bleachings were limited
to the autumn (Sept-Nov) when maximal temperatures
occur.  A week later (Feb. 20) a dive computer gave a
temp. reading of 84 F at the surface and 82 F 10
meters down.  This bleaching is on the southern
leeward shore, sheltered from the tradewinds, during a
period of calm condition (i.e., minimal swell).

I would also like to thank all the people who
responded months ago to my coral area software
request.  ImageJ worked great; results will be
submitted for publication soon.

For those show don't want to wait, here is a summary:
I analyzed the area of over 800 colonies (those found
within a transect 20m by 120m), and calculated that
coral disease had killed 18% of tabulate Acroporas
over 50 cm in size during the 2004 calender year.
Previous coral mortality was far less, so I caught
this outbreak in its early stages.  However,
additional area added by coral growth was probably in
the order of 20% or more.  (Fast growing tables add 1
cm to their radius each month, on average!)  One
particularly "crowded" patch (having over 48% live
tabulate coral cover, almost exclusively A. cytherea)
experienced a whopping 30% mortality in only 7 months,
with disease spreading to adjacent tables and shelves.
 There does not seem to be much seasonal variation in
disease initiation (I monitored the site 3-4x a month,
so I have pretty accurate data), perhaps a small spike
in August.

Cheers,
Dean Jacobson
College of the Marshall Islands



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