There is growing interest in the relatively time-consuming, complex and expensive process of growing coral fragments in nurseries for transplant back into the wild. Our organization in the Philippine has been operating coral nurseries and outcropping coral fragments for over 4 years. But what has been counterproductive to our efforts is the daily experience of feeling shock waves from fish bombing activity knowing each bomb is destroying many times more coral than we are able to replant.

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