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Fishing With Bombs and Cyanide Is Taking a Devastating Toll on Coral Reefs
As the reefs in the Pacific Ocean disappear, so does the marine life that depends on them.
All it takes is a few seconds—and a big boom—to destroy an underwater ecosystem decades or centuries in the making.
The boom, in many cases, comes from a
homemade bomb thrown overboard by someone looking for a quick and easy
way to collect fish. The blasts kill or stun the fish, which can then be
scooped out of the water with little effort.
“It costs $1 or $2 to create this bomb,” said Gabby Ahmadia, a senior
marine scientist with the World Wildlife Fund. “They might be able to
get $10 or $15 worth of catch.”
That relatively small amount of catch, however, comes with a huge
cost below the surface of the ocean. Ahmadia just returned from three
weeks in the Pacific Ocean’s Coral Triangle,
where she observed the effects of blast fishing. “I’ve seen reefs that
I’ve been working on for years, and they’ve been blasted,” she said.
“They look like huge rubble minefields. It’s sad, because you have this
beautiful 3-D architecture that a healthy coral reef can provide, and
when it gets blasted all it ends up being is this rubble field that
doesn’t have that nice habitat for all of the fish and other critters to
live in.” Coral reefs take up about 1 percent of the ocean bottom, but they are home to more than 25 percent of marine fishes.
(See Pete Bethune and his team investigate blast fishing in this week’s episode of The Operatives, which airs on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT on Pivot, the
television network owned by Participant Media, TakePart’s parent
company. Join the Operatives on their missions, and take action to
protect all wildlife by clicking here.)
The effects of this blast fishing are long-lasting. “After the 30
seconds that it takes for the blast to go off and damage the reef, it
can take decades for the reef to recover,” Ahmadia said. Meanwhile, the
myriad marine life that used to live in and around the reef disappears.
“Imagine going to a rainforest and there’s all these creatures sitting
there, and then you move around to an area where it’s been clear-cut and
it’s empty of wildlife. Essentially that’s the same thing you’re seeing
underwater.”
RELATED: One of the World’s Most Notorious Illegal Fishing Crews Is Fined $17 Million
Ahmadia said the blast fishing technique is particularly prevalent in
Indonesia and that the people who use it know the damage they are
creating. “They won’t blast along their own reefs,” she said. “Often
they’ll go out to other reefs or to remote places, because they do
understand the repercussions.”
The practice continues even though it’s
dangerous for the fishers as well. “You often see people with missing
limbs or a lot of burns all over their bodies,” Ahmadia said. “People
are like, ‘Yeah, that’s a bomb fisher.’ ”
Although bombs are the most prevalent, they aren’t the only illegal
fishing technique that can harm coral. Large nets or traps can break
coral, causing irreparable damage. Some people also use poisons such as
cyanide. The poison stuns the fish, making them easy to catch, but after
that it kills coral and other sea creatures. According to the WWF, for
every fish that is caught using cyanide, about a square meter of coral
reef dies.
More large-scale use of these methods can also cause damage to the
lesser-known deep-sea reefs that grow many hundreds of feet below the
surface. Sometimes these actions are deliberate; other times they are
done out of ignorance. “For the most part, fishermen are not targeting
these habitats, but in many cases we don’t know where these habitats
are, so it’s easy to blunder into areas and damage them,” said Tom
Hourigan, chief scientist for the deep-sea coral research and technology program at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Even unintentional damage adds up—and it doesn’t go away. “Heavy
fishing equipment, especially heavy bottom trawls, can do a lot of
damage to these habitats,” Hourigan said. “Some of the habitats that
have been damaged by trawling or other fishing techniques, there’s very
little evidence of recovery after several decades.”
NOAA, the WWF, and other organizations and governments have helped to
combat illegal fishing by establishing marine protected areas and
funding enforcement and prosecution of illegal fishing. They also work
to educate communities about the destructive nature of these practices.
The MPAs don’t cover everything, though. Ahmadia recounted a research
effort from a few years ago when she was trying to find previously
healthy reefs just outside an MPA. During a three-day search, all the
team could find “was rubble field after rubble field after rubble field.
Because this was a more remote area, they had just decimated it. That’s
pretty depressing,” she said.
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