Coral Farms and Reef Balls

[Mike King]

John, I stated that the Cow-oy coral farm was in very poor shape when we visited it (this is the farm we both visited). The word abandoned was used by the villagers in Camotes (where you did not go) for how they felt about what happened to them and their coral farm. At my meeting with the collectors and village leaders from the Camotes Islands in San Francisco they asked several times for my help and I will be going back there in a few months to give it to them.

The answers I asked for are being given, and I'm not going to push the issue any further for there is no need.

Mike

 

[John_Brandt]

John, I stated that the Cow-oy coral farm was in very poor shape when we visited it (this is the farm we both visited). The word abandoned was used by the villagers in Camotes (where you did not go) for how they felt about what happened to them and their coral farm. At my meeting with the collectors and village leaders from the Camotes Islands in San Francisco they asked several times for my help and I will be going back there in a few months to give it to them.

The answers I asked for are being given, and I'm not going to push the issue any further for there is no need.

Mike

OK, Mike it looks like there is some semantic confusion going on. When you and I were snorkeling over the coral farm at Olango Island you stated (more than once) that the farm appeared "abandoned". This comment surprised me because there were nice clams still in those caged racks. You repeated the observation that the farm had been "abandoned" to Lino Alvarez when we returned to the banca. In all fairness, that may have been your way of expressing that it was in very poor shape.

I understand what you mean that the proposed coral farm project at Camotes Islands was abandoned before it was ever started, but that is a separate subject from the one I was referring to.