Coral Spawning
Alina M. Szmant
szmanta at uncwil.edu
Thu Aug 9 10:59:55 EDT 2001
Hi Bernardo:
We were out nites of 5, 6 ,7 and 8 on A palmata patches on Horseshoe reef,
Key Largo . We saw no activity on first 2 nites, 4-5 colonies had small
patches of bundle formation on the 7th of Aug (minor spawning, some bundles
in water), and ca. 50 % of colonies spawning on Aug 8th. Spawning was ca.
10:30 to 11:00 (bundle formation from ca. 9:45 to 10:30 pm). It was very
surgy and difficult to collect spawn.
What % of your colonies did you see spawn?
Best,
Alina
At 03:48 PM 8/7/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Subject: Coral spawning event
>
>Date: 6 August 2001
>
>Location: Acropora cervicornis thickets off Ft. Lauderdale, FL,
>depth 3.3
>meters
>
>Sea conditions: Winds E - NE 10-12 knots, seas with moderate
>chop, 2-4 ft.;
>southerly current, 0.75 kts, estimated. Thick layer of brackish
>inshore
>water delivered by inlets due to recent heavy rain events.
>
>Report: Colonies of Acropora cervicornis released egg-sperm
>bundles around
>22:15h-22:30h.
>
>
>Bernardo Vargas-Angel
>
>
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>Bernardo Vargas-Angel
>Research Scientist
>National Coral Reef Institute
>NSU Oceanographic Center
>8000 N. Ocean Drive
>Dania Beach, FL 33004
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