Other Animal Disease — United States
Black band disease is once again spreading through some corals around Kauai, according to Hanalei researcher Terry Lilley.
Over the past 2 months, Lilley surveyed the same 20 sites that he monitored in 2013 and 2014 with researchers from University of Hawaii, US Geological Survey, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [NOAA].
The disease appeared off the North Shore in 2012 and dissipated in mid-2015, but Lilley says he’s now documenting a 5 percent rise in North Shore
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