Using size-weight relationships to estimate biomass of heavily targeted aquarium corals by Australia's coral harvest fisheries.

ABSTRACT: Coral reefs are highly threatened environs subject to ongoing unprecedented degradation as a result of anthropogenic activities. Given the existential threat to coral reef ecosystems, extractive industries that make use of coral reef resources, are facing significant public and political pressure to quantify and justify their environmental impact. In Australia, hundreds of thousands of live scleractinian (hard) corals are harvested annually directly from the wild to supply the growing international marine aquarium trade. Many of the most popular and high value aquarium corals are believed to be slow growing, which would make them particularly vulnerable to over-fishing. Corals present a number of unique challenges for fisheries management, not least of which, is the marked variation in the

SUBMITTER: Pacey KI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9879994 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature