[Coral-List] Pillar coral demise
Eugene Shinn
eugeneshinn at mail.usf.edu
Fri May 21 17:33:19 UTC 2021
Yes Pillar coral is going down hill. It was fairly rare in the 1950s and
60s when I started diving in the Keys. It was also prized by collectors
back then. One fellow I knew would break off the pillars and lie them on
their side so that smaller pillars would began growing upward along its
length. They They sold better than a single pillar. Nevertheless that
was not the major cause of their demise. Many other species as everyone
knows were also on the down hill slide at the same time. Gene
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