{"id":3268,"date":"2012-01-04T14:52:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T18:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/?p=3268"},"modified":"2012-04-25T11:46:12","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T15:46:12","slug":"60-minutes-and-cuban-reefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/edfish\/2012\/01\/04\/60-minutes-and-cuban-reefs\/","title":{"rendered":"60 Minutes and Cuban Reefs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elkhorn coral and reef fish in the Gardens of the Queen marine park in Cuba.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hats off to CBS for the recent \u201c60 Minutes\u201d segment on the coral reefs of the \u201cGardens of the Queen\u201d (Jardines de la Reina) in Cuba!<\/p>\n

The Gardens of the Queen is a spectacular national park off the south central coast of Cuba.\u00a0 EDF has had the privilege of working with Cuban scientists and resource managers in the park for several years.\u00a0 Just this past November<\/a> we teamed up with Cuban partners there to host an international workshop on fisheries management and marine protected areas.\u00a0 In 2012 we will partner with Cuban scientists to study the benefits on fish populations from restricting most fisheries inside the park.<\/p>\n

The 60 Minutes piece highlights the good work Cubans are doing to protect marine ecosystems and the challenges that lie ahead.\u00a0 I was especially impressed with the work of CBS producer Anya Bourg to ensure that the piece was rigorous \u2013 as much as possible \u2013 in its treatment of complex scientific issues.\u00a0 Explaining complicated and often subtle relationships in plain and compelling language is a real feat!<\/p>\n

For the most part, 60 Minutes got it right.\u00a0 Let me expand on two key themes from the piece, based on work we are doing with Cuban scientists to help understand the lessons from the Gardens of the Queen.<\/p>\n

The coral reef ecosystems of the Jardines are spectacular, and in better shape than most other coral reefs around the Caribbean.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The scientific literature \u2013 and my personal experience diving the reefs of the Gardens and elsewhere around the Caribbean for many years \u2013 confirms the central points in the report.\u00a0 The reefs in the Jardines contain unusually large numbers of top predators including sharks and large groupers and snappers, and unusually large amounts of fishes of all species.\u00a0 While there are other places in the Caribbean that one can go to see diverse small fish communities, sites with high abundances of large fishes are quite rare.\u00a0 Few \u2013 if any \u2013 locations offer larger total amounts of fish of all species.<\/p>\n

\"Sharks<\/a>
Sharks are vital to the health of coral reef ecosystems in the Gardens of the Queen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A scuba diver in the Gardens will see Caribbean reef sharks and silky sharks too numerous to count, along with frequent nurse sharks, and occasional lemon and blacktip sharks.\u00a0 Most weeks \u2013 depending on season and other factors \u2013 visitors have multiple whale shark encounters.\u00a0 We encountered five in one day in November.<\/p>\n

Large groupers are common, including the true behemoths, the goliath groupers.\u00a0 While goliath groupers are making quite a comeback in some places in Florida, they are mostly still babies, with large animals still quite rare.\u00a0 In the Gardens, other groupers \u2013 black, Nassau, yellowmouth, yellowfin, and tiger, among others \u2013 are abundant at diving depths, along with all possible snappers, many fished out, or nearly so, in most Caribbean locales.<\/p>\n

Smaller species are present in great diversity and abundance, including the parrotfishes and other herbivores, the sanitation engineers of the reef, greatly diminished in many places.\u00a0 We recorded totals of 124 and 127 fish species in short trips to the Jardines in 2010 and 2011, respectively, without any night-diving or specialty habitat diving that would have expanded the numbers dramatically.<\/p>\n

\"Cuban<\/a>
Cuban Research Vessel in the Gardens of the Queen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The corals in the Gardens present a somewhat different story, reflecting the challenges faced by corals across the Caribbean.\u00a0 Historical epidemics of diseases of corals that devastated total coral cover around the region affected every reef \u2013 no completely \u201cpristine\u201d reefs exist.\u00a0 The massive dieoffs of long-spined urchins that caused algal overgrowth of many reefs occurred here, too.\u00a0 Staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) and elkhorn coral (A. palmata) were also significantly affected in the Gardens.\u00a0 Together, these factors have reduced coral health everywhere in the Caribbean.\u00a0 Total coral cover in the Gardens is probably less than half what it was in the first half of the 20th century \u2013 lower than the past, but still better than most other places in the region.<\/p>\n

That said, significant areas in the Gardens retain their elkhorn coral reefs, and the species seems to be holding its own there, reproducing, apparently both by larval settlement and resheeting.\u00a0 Urchin populations have also rebounded to considerable numbers.\u00a0 The high abundances of fish species that help control overall community structure \u2013 especially herbivores and top predators \u2013 is also obvious.<\/p>\n

The bottom line is that while there are no \u201cpristine\u201d reefs anywhere in the Caribbean, many reefs in the Gardens of the Queen are among the healthiest, retaining many of the attributes reefs will need to persist into the future.
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High quality reefs in the Gardens may prove more resilient to the challenges ahead, and that may provide important lessons for future management of coral reefs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The bad news is that corals around the world face massive challenges associated with historical damage exacerbated by new threats associated with a warming, rising and acidifying world ocean.\u00a0 In addition, intensifying storms of the type that have wrecked havoc in other notable Caribbean diving destinations like Belize, Bonaire and the Virgin Islands also threaten Cuba.\u00a0 In recent years, Cuba has been in the cross hairs of numerous hurricanes and other tropical storms.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, \u201cbleaching\u201d of corals occurs when otherwise symbiotic microalgae are driven out of their homes inside coral organisms by too-hot water.\u00a0 Bleaching often leads to coral death.\u00a0 Increasingly, bleaching has occurred throughout the Caribbean during hot summers, including in Cuba.<\/p>\n

To make matters worse, the recent plague of voraciously predatory and venomous Pacific lionfish throughout the Caribbean \u2013 caused by \u201cbiological pollution,\u201d the accidental and perhaps purposeful releases of these animals in U.S. waters \u2013 not only adds another threat to coral reef ecosystems, but another management complexity.\u00a0 Changing ecosystems are vulnerable to invasion by novel opportunistic species.\u00a0 Many scientists fear that lionfish are just the first of many such invaders.\u00a0 I personally counted 34 lionfish on a single transect while diving in the Gardens in 2010.<\/p>\n

Without careful management, most coral reefs seem doomed.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The good news is that elkhorn corals persist in some places in the Gardens and elsewhere, creating an opportunity to manage for future reefs, if we can understand the lessons from this survival.\u00a0 When coral reef scientists from the U.S., Mexico and Cuba get together to compare notes about the future of shared reefs of the Caribbean, identification of the factors that result in persistence rise invariably to the top of all research wish lists.<\/p>\n

Recent scientific papers directly link total fish biomass to a whole suite of coral ecosystem health indicators.\u00a0 Admittedly, that groundbreaking work was done in the Pacific, but there is no reason to expect it won\u2019t work in the Caribbean.\u00a0 Put simply, most marine ecologists believe that reefs with more intact trophic structure and higher fish biomass overall will be healthier in the future, and more resilient to climate change.<\/p>\n

In addition, corals can recover from bleaching, when conditions allow their endosymbionts to recolonize the corals.\u00a0 In the Gardens, coral mortality after bleaching seems low, according to the Cuban scientists who are studying this phenomenon.<\/p>\n

The Cubans \u2013 and other resource managers around the Caribbean \u2013 are also working hard to understand the implications of the lionfish invasion and identify management options to negate its impact, as a general lesson for the future of reefs in changing seas.\u00a0 A tiny glimmer of hope: although young lionfish are still all over the place in the shallow waters, our informal censuses of lionfish on some reefs in the Gardens contained fewer individuals in 2011 than in 2010.\u00a0 Perhaps the large populations of large predatory fishes can help modulate this threat.\u00a0 Time will tell.<\/p>\n

While no one can know today which reefs will persist \u2013 or for that matter, what their biological composition will be in the future \u2013 the presence of these unusually high-quality sites within the Gardens gives good reason for hope for the future, if we can just learn the lessons in time!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Hats off to CBS for the recent \u201c60 Minutes\u201d segment on the coral reefs of the \u201cGardens of the Queen\u201d (Jardines de la Reina) in Cuba! The Gardens of the Queen is a spectacular national park off the south central coast of Cuba. 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