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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (44478)	7/8/1999 12:47:00 AM
From: Dayuhan	Respond to of 108807

The scars tend to look different; degrees of destruction vary, as do degrees of post-destruction interference. You do see spots of living coral around, especially after blast-fishing, which is less thorough than trawling or poison. They tend to be all of the same varieties; I imagine it's like a forest regenerating in that. You probably will be seeing coral again, and fish, within decades; to restore the original variety and balance I suspect we are talking at least in terms of centuries. I'm no expert; the inch-in-a-hundred-years figure is one often cited. I can only report what I've seen, and I can say that the difference between an intact reef and one recently destroyed is really pretty shocking. The difference between a living forest and a recent clear-cut comes close, but isn't the same, if only in the stunning variety of immediately visible color and life that the reef provides.