Melanie McField mcfield@healthyreefs.org via coral.aoml.noaa.gov <\/p>\n
The Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI) recently released its The simultaneous launch events in the 4 MAR countries garnered over 70 Major findings include:<\/p>\n – The overall 2015 MAR Reef Health Index score was \u2018fair\u2019 (2.8), on a – Corals \u2013 the architects of the reef \u2013 have improved since 2006, – Commercial fish have increased in biomass \u2013 an important success – – Fully protected areas had 10 times more snapper and grouper biomass Join the International Society for Reef Studies Melanie McField mcfield@healthyreefs.org via coral.aoml.noaa.gov The Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative (HRI) recently released its 2015 Report Card for the Mesoamerican Reef, recording an improvement in reef health for this important reef system encompassing 248 study sites across the 100 km of coast in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. You can download the report … Continue reading Coral-list: 2015 Mesoamerican Reef Report Card available<\/span>
\n 2015 Report Card for the Mesoamerican Reef, recording an improvement in
\n reef health for this important reef system encompassing 248 study sites
\n across the 100 km of coast in Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. You
\n can download the report from and view a 5 min video version right from our
\n homepage: *www.healthyreefs.org
\n media stories and celebrated important conservation wins, such as the full
\n protection of parrotfish in Guatemala (jointing Belize and the Bay Islands
\n of Honduras in their previous full protection of these key herbivores). In
\n the next couple of weeks we will launch the full database behind this
\n report, also from our website. Thanks to the 65 partner organizations that
\n comprise this collaborative effort!<\/p>\n
\n scale of \u2018critical\u2019 (1) to \u2018very good\u2019 (5), with encouraging improvements
\n over the last report.<\/p>\n
\n increasing from 10%-16% cover; although fleshy macroalgae, the main
\n competitors with corals for open reef space, have also increased.<\/p>\n
\n although large groupers are quite rare (only 4% of the 700 groupers counted
\n were >40cm long) and are mainly found in fully protected zones of marine
\n protected areas (MPAs).<\/p>\n
\n than those within general use areas of designated MPAs or reefs with no
\n protection. Collaborative efforts to rebuild fish populations through
\n replenishment (=fully protected) areas are working.
\n—
\n Melanie McField, PhD
\n Director, Healthy Reefs for Healthy People Initiative, Smithsonian Institution
\n 1648 NE 47th St, Ft Lauderdale FL 33334
\n Cell: 754 610 9311 Tel: 954 990 8842
\n email: mcfield@healthyreefs.org
\n www.healthyreefs.org<\/p>\n
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