Muro-ami is a fishing method where the fishes are driven out of a coral reef by
pounding the corals with a heavy weight, or simply by breaking the corals. Then the
fishes are guided into the nearby fishnets.
1. Is Mur mi illegal? Why?
pounding the corals with a heavy weight, or simply by breaking the corals. Then the
fishes are guided into the nearby fishnets.
1. Is Mur mi illegal? Why?
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In 1986, the Department of Agriculture banned muro-ami in Philippine waters because of the tremendous damage it causes to coral reefs. Muro-ami involves skin-divers diving to often dangerous depths to pound the easily broken corals with rocks or pipes to scare fish into a large waiting net.
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