Inno Fisheries Sdn Bhd is selling corals. Here. Personally I am concerned. Is it right to sell our corals when we are having problems here. What with fish bombing and other destructive methods of fishing we have. And then there are land based pollution flushed out into our ocean, choking the corals. Now this?!
-Salha-
Disturbing
Thursday, February 14, 2008 | Posted by Popong at 5:13 PM
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I personally don't see what's so bad about this. From what I understand from that site, limited corals are harvested from wild and then farmed/bred in controlled environment. I suppose these are sold for whatver purpose e.g. coral rehabilitation projects or even decoration in fancy aquariums. but getting farmed ones is better than allowing people to help themselves to those in the wild, no? Also conservation efforts does not come for free (in fact nothing is!)- making it a business venture is a way of ensureing the $$ rolls in and reinvested back, and also so the species doesn die out from the aforementioned pollution etc.
It doesn't mean that we dont bother at all with the conservation, rehab, anti-pollution efforts. That must still carry on.
Again note, this is a personal view :) I'm all ears if you can explain to me more about the percieved evils of the farmed coral trade. I do have an open mind and willing to learn.
Better than allowing people to help themselves to those in the wild? Yes, but how come they can help themselves to those in the wild?
Coral replanting is a great idea. But even people who are trying to conserve the coral reef are a bit reluctant to try coral replanting because the mortality rate of transplanted corals is very high. So of course the main target customers are the aquarium trade. (Personally I don’t advocate aquariums) Coral replanting is last step in coral conservation. Prevention is better than cure. So we should educate our people first. Put a stop to the destruction and then we can start our replanting and rehabilitation.
According to their site, they harvest 400-500 seedlings a day (i conseder this large scale harvesting). Imagine how much that would amount to in a month, a year. Corals are slow to grow. So how much can they take to make it sustainable?
My concerns are,
1. Who is monitoring their harvesting? (We all know enforcement is not a strong point in this country.)
2. How many corals can they harvest to make it sustainable? What are they basing their conclusion on? Do they take into account fish bombing and other destructive acts into their calculation?
3. We are still in baby stages of coral reef conservation, rehab and anti-pollution efforts. We are not even close to eliminating fish bombing. So why add “selling corals” into the picture?
Your concerns are much better explained here than in the post. Thanks :)
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