[Coral-List] SCTLD has reached Bonaire

[Alina Szmant]

Thanks Todd. Given the title of the report it doesn't suggest that ballast water has been directly linked to any specific disease, especially since as far as I know, the pathogen causing SCTLD hasn't been identified. I will try to scan it when I get a chance.



Dr. Alina M. Szmant,  CEO
CISME Instruments LLC



-------- Original message --------
From: Todd Barber <reefball at reefball.com>
Date: 7/29/22 3:52 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: Alina Szmant <alina at cisme-instruments.com>
Cc: Eugene Shinn <eugeneshinn at mail.usf.edu>, coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov
Subject: Re: [Coral-List] SCTLD has reached Bonaire

The reference to Ballest Water comes from Wikipedia reference #6.

  1.   Dahlgren, Craig; Pizarro, Valeria; Sherman, Krista; Greene, William; Oliver, Joseph (2021). "Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Outbreaks in The Bahamas"<https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffmars.2021.682114>. Frontiers in Marine Science. 8. doi<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doi_(identifier)>:10.3389/fmars.2021.682114<https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffmars.2021.682114>. ISSN<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)> 2296-7745<https://www.worldcat.org/issn/2296-7745>.

I have not read the study, just the Wiki summary which is not always a credible source.


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On Fri, Jul 29, 2022 at 2:07 PM Alina Szmant via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>> wrote:
I don't always agree with Gene, but I do in this case.  If there are peer-reviewed publications linking pathogens isolated from ballast water that have been found to infect and cause SCTLD or any other coral disease,  please share.

Alina Szmant



Dr. Alina M. Szmant,  CEO
CISME Instruments LLC



-------- Original message --------
From: Eugene Shinn via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>>
Date: 7/29/22 2:03 PM (GMT-05:00)
To: coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov<mailto:coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov>
Subject: [Coral-List] SCTLD has reached Bonaire

Listers, As I have pointed out many times the huge Staghorn forest at
San Salvador perished in less than 3 months in 1983----along with
Diadema. San Salvadore is way east of the Bahama Bank surrounded by deep
blue clear water---a long way up current and up wind of the Panama
canal. As for the present situation I am not aware of any evidence that
the cause of coral diseases is coming from ballast water. Gene

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