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babies, growing on cinder blocks and pvc pipe and hanging on rope line. due to disease, global warming and stress, stag horn and coral have been plummeting. i ve lived off the reeves and watched it die to bring it back to a healthier condition is there s just a huge tricken down, economic effect everywhere and not to mention the biological effects. and the coral have proven to be resilient. back in 2003 they transplanted just six coral on nearby molasses ref and today the six have turned into 1500. on pickles reef two years ago it was dead and barren, no coral, no fish. today, with transplanted coral from the nursery, it s full of fish, 3 million federal stimulus dollars has paid to grow the program and fund about 50 jobs to maintain ten
needed jobs to the area. phil keating is live in the miami bureau. tell us about the the underwater corral areas. they re almost like farms. they truly are, martha, they are like you would see in a tomato familiar or some other vegetable and they grow stag horn and elk horn corral which are the only two species listed on the ang dangered species. they were punished and decimated in large population numbers in the 1980s and when you what you have are rows of cinder block and pipe, rows attached to poles, all growing bits of corral which grow pretty much 1 millimeter a day and these two population, elk and stag horn are recovering from bacterial disease, global warming, and stress. i made my living off the reefs for most of my life and i ve watched it die and i ve come up with solutions to fix it, i think. so now it s like my passion