Now the concrete reefs are being launched to save Sweden’s coral reefs. 132 star-shaped reef structures will be placed in six locations in the Koster and Väderö fjords. The goal is for small coral larvae to find their way there and start building new living reefs.
We have finished up another season of coral spawning (see video below) and experiments with larvae. The larvae have given us a hint on what
Year 2022 was busy for the environmental data collection in the project. Three full field campaigns were completed, where instruments were left out at the
During this autumn and winter, textured panels have been retrieved from two locations in the Koster-Väderöfjord. We placed them on the seafloor in the spring
We have now started to retrieve some of the settling panels that now have been sitting on the sea floor for one and a half
Currents seem to have big influence on the coral’s presence, growth and health. Very weak currents probably reduce the supply of food, at the same
A five minutes video introducing the project in English is now available on the webb, under Om projektet. The video was made to an online
Right now the corals spawn and release a lot of eggs and sperm in the aquaria at Tjärnö marine laboratory (see also news Coral factory
For testing the suitability of different substrate types and structures for larval settling we placed several test settling panels out at Tisler reef in Norway.
With deployments of different types of measuring devices (e.g. ADCP: Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) at Lophelia reef sites, we are measuring the current speed and
