Substrate Addition - Artificial reef — Bluefields Bay

OPP-94K445permanent identifier · cite as oceanportfolio.org/p/OPP-94K445

Published as: An evolutionary approach to adaptive capacity assessment: A case study of Whitehouse | Technique: Substrate Addition - Artificial reef | Genera: n/a | Method: Installed 350 ecoreef structures. The ceramic units, designed to mimic staghorn coral, facilitate the growth of coral reefs by slowing the water flow, stabilising sediment and providing a microporous surface for coral adhesion. In the process, they also increase fish populations. Did not transplant corals | Authors' conclusion: A baseline survey of fish populations conducted in June 2011, and subsequent surveys in January 2012 and June 2012 showed that fish abundance and diversity increased significantly: “A year later, 8195 individuals were documented over three fifteen minute transects compared to the original 115 individual fish noted at the artificial reef site” | This record was compiled from a published source and has not been confirmed by the organisation that carried out the work. No contribution to the condition index is recorded: the source reports survival of transplanted material, which is not a measure of ecosystem condition.

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