Coral Monitoring: Start date 21st April 2015; Duration: 10 weeks Dredging: Start date 29th April 2015; Duration: 9 weeks Dredging Locations: Northern end of Tegako Coral bleaching continues to be below trigger levels (50% bleaching C1-C5 averaged over all corals), though levels are increasing at both northern sites No action is required. Results since 19…
Coral Monitoring: Start date 21st April 2015; Duration: 8.4 weeks Dredging: Start date 29th April 2015; Duration: 7.3 weeks Dredging Locations: Northern end of Tegako Coral bleaching is below trigger levels (50% bleaching C1-C5 averaged over all corals) and no action is required. Results this week The coral watch results for the past 1.5 weeks…
Dredging has been on-going now for almost 5 weeks (begun on 29th April 2015), with all dredging to date concentrated in the area between Site 1 and Site 2 near the northern end of Tegako islet. Monitoring of corals has been carried out since 21st April (almost 6 weeks). The coral watch results for the…
This is the first of a series of coral monitoring reports we will send around to keep track of indicators of coral stress during the dredging works. The measurements are being taken by Paeniu Lopati and Filipo Makolo of the Fisheries Department using the Coral Watch methodology. The aim is to use corals as sensitive…