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Fish numbers drop as reefs take a bashing http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1237488231
The battering taken by Caribbean coral reefs is finally taking its toll on the fish that dwell in them, a large new study suggests.
"We are seeing striking declines that are amazingly consistent across a huge area and very different types of fish," says Michelle Paddack of Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada. "The losses affect both large fish that are hunted by fishers and small fish that aren't."... Starting from the mid 1990s, in all regions covered by the studies, fish numbers have fallen by between 2.7 and 6 percent per year.
Paddack suspects that as well as overfishing, coral demise from disease and bleaching is to blame, together with pollution from coastal development.
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