Pemulihan Habitat di Lagun PLL M`sia

REEF STATUS
OF LABUAN
MARINE PARKS
Prepared by:
Daud Awang
Fisheries Research Institute Sarawak
http:// www.fri.gov.my/marsal
Email: [email protected]
INTRODUCTION
Labuan Marine Park (5°15’N; 115°07’E)
INTRODUCTION
• Mini Scientific Expedition Labuan Zone
2012
• 25-28 Jun 2012
• Objective : Assessment of Coral Reef
Status
SURVEY TEAM
2
~ 27 sq km
1
Kuraman
Kuraman
3
Rusukan Kecil
4
Rusukan Besar
Rusukan
Kecil
5
6
Rusukan
Besar
7
8
METHODOLOGY
Substrate cover categories documented using the
modified Reef Check method (Hodgson et al., 2006)
RESULT
F
G
Kuraman
G
G
G
F
F
Rusukan B
G
Rusukan K
(Chou et al., 1994), LC >75% is ‘Excellent’, 50-75% is ‘Good’,
25-50% is ‘Fair’ and <25% is ‘Poor’.
RESULT..
A total of 161 species, 54 genera and 15 families of
hard corals have been recorded in Labuan. All of
these species are illustrated in Veron (2000)
Zarinah et al (2007) – 94 species Brunei Bay, Pulau
Tiga 114
Markus Ruf (2010) – 390 species, 70 genera & 15
families.
RESULT..
Rank
Genus
No. Species
1
14
2
Acropora
Montipora
3
Favia
7
4
Pavona
4
5
Platygyra
4
6
Fungia
4
7
Goniopora
4
8
Porites
4
9
Turbinaria
3
10
Favites
2
13
- Genera with the greatest number of species (58%)
- UNIMAS (1999) : Porites (18.7 %), Acropora (11.0 %),
Fungia (10.3 %), Pocillopora (9.0 %) and Montipora
(7.0 %).
Scolymia australis. GBR,
Australia. Variation in the
structure and colour of
solitary polyps. Photograph
Valerie Taylor.
Norfolk Island, Coral
Sea. Photograph:
Charlie Veron.
Trachyphyllia geoffroyi.
Skeleton. Great Barrier Reef,
Australia. Showing a small
colony.
Great Barrier Reef,
Australia. An hourglass
shaped colony.
Photograph: Roger
Steene.
CONCLUSION & RECOMMENDATIONS
• Monitoring & annual surveys.
• Permanent transect.
• Mooring buoys are needed if tourism
continues to expand.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Thank you
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If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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