[Coral-List] SCTLD has reached Bonaire

[Daniel Holstein]

You may want to consider this preprint:

https://assets.researchsquare.com/files/rs-1720701/v1/e058466c-f48a-4b2a-83f5-7a5ef15aaef3.pdf?c=1654282925

Best,
Dan

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> On Jul 29, 2022, at 4:52 PM, Alina Szmant via Coral-List <coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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> 
> Dr. Alina M. Szmant,  CEO
> CISME Instruments LLC
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> 
> -------- 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.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Todd R Barber
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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
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> 
> -------- 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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