Department of Fisheries and Maritime Gresik district will be involve hundreds fishermen in Ngimboh Village, sub district Ujung Pangkah, to drowned 417 artificial coral reefs in Ngimboh Beach on 11 June 2009.
Head of Marine Fisheries Gresik Lukito Iwan, said there have been trained 35 fishermen Ngimboh was provided how to drown and treat artificial coral reefs.
That provisioning purpose to preparation drowned 417 artificial coral reefs that hollow cube shape made from cement, with 60 cm and 150 kg in Ngimboh Beach,” he said.
Sinking artificial coral reefs conducted in three location in the coordinates 6 degrees south latitude and 112 degrees east longitude, with a depth of six meters of each point of 139 cubes.
"That cubes will connect to some part of the old coral reefs that have been damaged, by selecting the media of sand buffer in order to coral foundation eventually was stacked as a good as pyramid it can be strong,” he said.
Sinking that cube was done at high tide, with the cube direction is placed west to east toward the beach outside. According to him, Ngimboh Beach can be laying of artificial coral reefs because almost all natural coral on the beach was damaged by fishermen activities which using trawl nets or trawler net.
“With involvement of the fishermen, they can maintain the artificial coral reef, all at once to support breeding amount of potential fish population which began to decrease cause of coral reefs was damaged,” he said.
The making of artificial coral reefs cuboids was allocated in the Budget Revenue and Expenditure Gresik Regional District of Rp 129 million.source: Kompas/dkp.go.id
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