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Another Outbreak Of Coral Disease Hits The Reefs Of Kāneʿohe Bay, Oʿahu
2012-01-08 05:25:27

Researchers at the Hawai‘i Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB), an organized research unit in the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa’s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology have discovered an outbreak of coral disease called Montipora White Syndrome (MWS) in Kāneʿohe Bay, Oʿahu. (MWS) was discovered affecting coral reefs in Kāneʿohe Bay, Oʿahu.  Follow-up surveys found that the disease left trails of rubble in its wake.  It was estimated that over 100 colonies of rice...