Coral reefs have stopped growing
Coral reefs have stopped growing
James Cook University
Monday, 25 February 2013
Many Caribbean coral reefs have either stopped growing or are on the threshold of starting to erode, which new evidence has revealed.
Associate Professor Scott Smithers, from James Cook University was a part of a seven-member team of international scientists that carried out work at reefs across the Caribbean over a two-year period.
Coral reefs build their structures by both producing and accumulating calcium carbonate, which is essential for the maintenance and continued growth of coral reefs.
The research team discovered that the amount of new carbonate being added by Caribbean coral reefs is now significantly below rates measured over recent geological timescales, and in some habitats is as much as 70 per cent lower.
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is that down at Guardalavaca. at the southern end of the island, its not hard to find dead inland reefs. Either the island has tilted in the past or the Atlantic has dropped somewhat.
On the reef at Jibacoa, about 50 kms south of Havana ,you can just paddle out and hand feed the fish with bits of bread and banana. 
