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Qatar conducts reef restoration along three pipeline corridors

05/21/2007
Qatar Gas contracted CSA International, Inc. to conduct a coral reef restoration project, designed as mitigation for three pipeline corridors off Ras Laffan Industrial City, Qatar.The project consisted of collecting, transporting, and relocating 4,500 living hard corals from the proposed pipeline corridors crossing living coral reefs (Fig. 1). A team of CSA scientific divers, operating under a dive plan approved by RLIC and Qatar Petroleum, removed the corals. This picture shows a number of the corals relocated by CSA in their new environment (Fig. 1).Click here to enlarge imageThe species, coral colony size, growth form, and health of the corals guided selection for removal. CSA caged t...
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