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Synchronized spawning creates new life for coral reefs in Florida Keys
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Synchronized spawning creates new life for coral reefs in Florida Keys
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A couple hours after midnight, one to seven nights after the August full moon, Florida coral are in the mood.
With a swimmer’s synchronicity, they release their eggs and sperm, which stream toward the starlit surface, “like reverse snow happening in the water,” as described by frequent coral spawning observer Allison Delashmit, the director of operations for Mote Marine Lab’s Elizabeth Moore International Center for Coral Reef Research & Restoration on Summerland Key, on the south side of the Keys’ famous Seven Mile Bridge.
From Delashmit’s perspective, amid a flotilla of “scientists, volunteers, and anyone with a boat that was willing to sit out in the middle of the night and wait for this event to happen,” the annual phenomenon is beautiful, but incredibly inefficient. When the bundles of eggs and sperm detonate on the surface, the latter has 20 minutes to reach and fertilize the former. Chances of a fertilized egg reaching maturity is about one in a million. Ever