Who was it?

[mkirda]

Greetings.

I am curious if anyone can point me in the direction of the persons who helped set up the coral farms that operated in the Solomon Islands.

I used to know the name(s) but cannot recall them now...

Thanks!
Mike Kirda
P.S. Anyone know if they are still operating?

 

[Veng68]

I'm not sure but maybe the guy who makes K2R calcium reactors?

I vaguely remember see some photos of him & the Solomon islands (but I could be wrong)

Cheers,
Veng68

 

[Mike King]

Hi mike, I have a bunch of info on the Solomon farms. I actually have the video of the first workshop at Simon's ponds filmed by John Walsh.
I talked to Dave and Ray back in 1994 about doing coral farming there and John helped them in 1995. ICLARM did some work on the project also. I worked with the Nughu villagers there in 1999. Teaching in remote villages under a kerosene lamp light at night and in the ocean during the day

The farms are starting back up, with help from FSP contact Austin Bowden-Kerby at [email protected] for more info.

Mike King
CORL

 

[JT]

I'm not sure but maybe the guy who makes K2R calcium reactors?

Naww, Bob Mankin was just a popular importer/retailer of the extremely popular solomon disk frags. Great guy!

- JT