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Threats to the Marine Environment
Effects of soil runoff
Faga'alu, American Samoa
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Silt & fishing line, Makai Pier, Waimanalo, Oahu
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Mostly dead after silt
Makai Pier, Waimanalo, Oahu
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Completely dead |
Healthy corals, Honokeana Bay, Maui
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Honokeana Bay, Maui |
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Honokeana Bay, Maui
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Silt causing tissue loss on Crater Coral
Waimea Bay, Oahu, 15 feet
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Cloth & silt on coral, Haleiwa, Oahu
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| Corals are also sensitive to choking by mud and sand washed
into the ocean from mismanaged land-clearing, agricultural, and construction
sites. Dredging and filling has the same effect. |
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