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 Fish eat weed, save corals [1]

CORAL reefs are a major part of the coastal economy. Fishermen harvest corals for ornamental trade. But, reefs are at risk and there is very little data on what factors put them in the high-risk category. Listing some of the possibilities, Naveen Namboodiri, post-doctoral fellow at Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment in Bangalore, said,

Publication Date: 
30/01/2009
Supriya Singh [2]
Down to Earth [3]
Tags:
Marine Ecosystems [4], Marine Research [5], Corals [6], Fisheries [7]

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[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/corals
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