[Coral-List] Getting old is no fun.

tomascik at novuscom.net tomascik at novuscom.net
Fri Nov 9 17:39:46 UTC 2018


Sadly we knew this a while back, here is a refresher:

http://legacy.seaaroundus.s3.amazonaws.com/doc/Researcher+Publications/dpauly/PDF/1995/Journal+Articles/Anecdotes%26ShiftingBaselineSyndromeFisheries.pdf

https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0060054

Tom

Quoting Charles Delbeek <cdelbeek at calacademy.org>:

> Sadly that is a common occurrence, and not just with reefs.
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> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 9:43 AM John Ware <jware at erols.com> wrote:
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>> Dear Peter and List,
>>
>> Peter Sale's recent comment, extracted below:
>>
>> "...that over the next decade or so, the world is going to lose a lot of
>> coral reef scientists along with our memories of what reefs could be like
>> in a Holocene ocean that no longer exists."
>>
>> This reminded me of a recent trip my wife and I made to Curacao.  We have
>> been diving ~40 years, maybe not long by the standards of many coral reef
>> scientists, but long enough to have seen many changes to our reefs.
>>
>> We were on a boat with quite a number of much younger divers (it seems
>> everyone is much younger these days).  When we came up my wife's first
>> comment was that "It was like diving on a cemetery!"  However, the younger
>> divers were raving about the beautiful reef referring to algal-covered
>> mounds that were once live coral.
>>
>> John
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