Fishing effects on coral
Rick Grigg
rgrigg at soest.hawaii.edu
Wed Mar 13 18:19:18 EST 1996
Dear Jack,
For impacts of fishing on coral reefs, see also: Grigg, R.W.
1994. Effects of sewage, fishing pressure and habitat complexity on
coral ecosystems and reef fishes in Hawaii. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Series
103:25-34.
Richard Grigg
On 13 Mar 1996, Jack, Sobel wrote:
> On March 8, William Moreno Caycedo requested information on the effects
> of fishing or overfishing on corals (see below). Although this important
> impact has been overlooked and underestimated by many, some particularly
> good work on this has been published by McClanahan etal on Kenyan coral
> reefs. Their work was made possible by the existance of "marine no-take
> reserves", areas closed to fishing, that enabled comparisons between
> fished and unfished areas. Their work suggests that, at least in Kenya,
> the impacts of overfishing/fishing on corals may be more important and
> severe than even widely recognized problems, such as those associated
> with eutrophication and sedimentation.
>
> Jack Sobel, Ecosystem Scientist
> Center for Marine Conservation
> sobelj at dccmc.mhs.compuserve.com
>
> From: William Moreno Caycedo <wm1 at ukc.ac.uk>
> To: coral-list at reef.aoml.noaa.gov
> Subject: Fishing and its effect on coral
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> To anybody
>
> Does anybody knows anything about the effects to coral by fishing (or
> overfishing) in a particular area of the world.
> At the moment I'm trying to study this problem but at this University
> (Canterbury U.K) there is not much information. I would be most grateful
>
> if someone could tell me where I can obtain this kind of info.
>
> Thanks
>
> William Moreno
>
> Durrel Intitute of Conservation and Biology
> wm1 at ukc.ac.uk
>
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