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Conversation: Marine – About Coral Reefs
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Coral Reefs form about 80 percent of all life on Earth it is found in the oceans, which cover 71 percent of the planet’s surface. Coral reefs are the rain forests of our oceans, providing a home for 25% of all marine life. Coral polyps create calcium carbonate. Some of the places where you have coral reefs are Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to the Florida Keys Reefs, and the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea. They are large underwater structures composed of the skeletons of dead organisms and are among the most amazing of ecosystems on our planet. As much as more than 60 percent of the earth’s coral reefs are threatened by human activity. Current estimates note that more than 10 percent of all coral reefs are degraded beyond recovery. Human activities intensify natural disturbances, subjecting coral reefs to substantial or permanent damage. Fishermen hit the coral reefs with crowbars to shake out stunned fish during fishing and trawling operations. Often they blow up a coral reef with explosives and the reef is completely destroyed both by the poison and then by being ripped apart. By the 2030’s, 90% of reefs are expected to be at risk from human activities, climatic changes and change in ocean currents rise in sea temperature and rise in sea levels. Ghost nets are a big problem because fishermen still catch fish and other marine life through conventional fishing methods which are out dated or not environmentally friendly. In view of all this restoration of coral reefs is of crucial importance and organizations like Reef India, Olive Ridley Project and many others are doing a thankless job of cleaning the oceans of plastics rubbish and most importantly ghost fishing nets, credit to all of them for doing a great job. There are many ghost fishing nets floating in the waters proving to be silent killers of marine life. Request you to share this with one and all to create awareness and request fishermen not to throw nets in the seas and oceans and try to adopt latest scientific methods which will prove to be beneficial in the long run.
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