On Front Page of Seattle Times today...

Am not certain exactly why this is significant...other then we live in a very "coral poor" region of the ocean...

Interesting article anyway...


Seattle Times
Friday, June 11, 2004 - Page updated at 12:55 A.M.

Atlantic coral detected off coast of Washington


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Scientists exploring underseas waters off the Olympic Peninsula have made a rare Pacific sighting of a classic hard coral found in the deep Atlantic, a branching white species known as Lophelia pertusa.
The research that ended yesterday was one of the most concerted efforts yet made off Washington's coast to document coral — deep-sea formations that can help provide shelter and food for a wide range of fish and other sea life.

It comes at a time of expanding awareness of the important niche the coral can play in sustaining life in deep-water ecosystem, and increased concern over the effects that decades of fishing may have had on the coral.

Rest at: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001953599_coral11m.html


FWIW

Scott

 

Very cool Scott! Wow! 8)

I wonder how it got there!?!

 

Oh those careless reefers diposing of this and that. As we learned from "Finding Nemo", it was probably flushed down the toilette, eh?

 

I was thinking the same thing at first, but it said deep water.