translocation of Porites bommies

[Precht, Bill]

for those who may be interested...

the Cozumel project that Eric refered to was performed by Ricardo
Munoz-Chagin... and he published some of the methodology and results in the
Panama Reef Mtg. Proceedings.

The reason the project was implemented was due to a port/dock expansion.
They built a combination artificial/natural reef and relocated &
transplanted everything they could... with great success I might add....This
new reef is adjacent to its original local... and it really looks quite
spectacular...a great case of successful "up-front" mitigation.

cheers,

Bill 

-----Original Message-----
From: EricHugo at aol.com [mailto:EricHugo at aol.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 1999 1:40 PM
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: Re: translocation of Porites bommies



In a message dated 11/16/99 10:52:25 AM, delbeek at hawaii.edu writes:

<< Harbour construction, dreging etc might necessitate the need to move
large
corals. The same was planned in Hawaii's Kawaihi area of the Big Island
when that harbour was enlarged.
 >>

In fact, that is the reason.  I hope Kristen will chime in here, but her 
co-worker mentioned to me today that funding is likely for a channel to a 
harbor area off Magnetic Island that goes through some large Porites bommies

and that the idea to reroute the channel was not taken.  If I am not 
mistaken, I believe that there was a similar situation in Cozumel where
large 
chunks of reef were relocated.  Was this done by carrying excised chunks 
under a barge, if I recall?  

Kristen, I sent a list of references to Michelle and they were returned for 
some reason.  If you read this, I will try again later.  

Eric Borneman