ÉCHOUAGES ET CORAUX !

Ce sont des incidents qui n’arrivent pas tous les jours, néanmoins des incidents qui arrivent trop fréquemment, principalement pour les coraux philippins.

Dans un billet déjà un peu ancien et sous le titre « Tu fais fort Pare », j’avais relaté un de ces incidents survenu dans la baie de Sarangani. Un autre, fort commenté, l’échouage d’un navire de guerre US sur le récif corallien du Tubbataha.


Mais ce ne sont pas les seuls, loin de là !

Un récif corallien est une structure naturelle dont les coraux sont essentiellement à l'origine.
Un récif corallien résulte de la construction d'un substrat minéral durable (formé de carbonate de calcium) secrété par des êtres vivants, principalement des coraux. Il existe de très nombreuses espèces de coraux qui forment des écosystèmes marins complexes et parmi les plus riches en biodiversité, généralement à faible profondeur. Les massifs coralliens, notamment en région tropicale, procurent des niches écologiques à de nombreux animaux qui y trouvent nourriture, refuge, protection et abri. De très nombreuses espèces de poissons en sont donc dépendantes.


Port and city authorities are preventing the departure of a Vietnamese cargo vessel that ran aground at the Albay Gulf on Monday and damaged about 2,000 square meters of coral reef within the city’s waters.
Benigno Redito, chief of the Integrated Resource Coastal Management (IRCM) unit of the city government, said the vessel, which has a crew of 21 Vietnamese, was ordered to stay put after the destruction of the coral reef along the Pulang Buya, or Demson Reef, was discovered.


The vessel, MV Ocean 3 owned by Hoang Anh Shipping, had just departed from the Legazpi City port after unloading sacks of imported rice from Vietnam when the ship’s hull plowed through the coral reef in Pulang Buya, some 5 nautical miles (9.26 kilometers) from the port, around 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. on June 15.

Redito said the city government would demand payment for the damage caused by the ship on the coral reef and would push for the seizure of the Vietnamese vessel.

PO1 Maximo Paraiso, port state control division head of the Philippine Coast Guard in Legazpi, said MV Ocean 3 would not be allowed to sail unless the Vietnamese ship could present a certificate of seaworthiness and after its owner has paid for the damage that the vessel caused.

The damage to the reef was initially estimated to be around P1 million, said Rhoneil Estevez, the chief operation officer of the fishery enforcement team of IRCM-Legazpi.
According to Redito, a sea mapping operation that city authorities conducted on Wednesday showed that the 2,000-sq m area damaged by the vessel was within the 4-hectare Demson Reef, a marine protected area being managed by IRCM.


“With the destruction of coral reef, our problem is the long-term recovery of the damaged site. It will take several years to do the rehabilitation,” said Redito.

Redito said authorities would need to consult marine experts to find out if it would be possible to rehabilitate the damaged area.

Redito said he believed that the accident was caused by human error, particularly since it happened during daytime. “If there was a lookout crew, it might not have happened as the reef is very visible during low tide,” he said.


He also said if rehabilitation of the reef would proceed, it would become necessary to ban fishing in the area, affecting the livelihood of small-scale fishers from Legazpi’s coastal communities.
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