⚠️IMPORTANT WARNING FOR ALL DIVERS ⚠️ Fast-spreading lethal disease (potentially SCTLD) has reached Bonaire’s reefs.

[tursiops]

few good articles in this link

https://bonairereporter.com/current_issue/current.pdf

That is a terrible article. The reporting is incorrect. For example, it says: "don’t dive in uninfected areas" but the actual STINAPA regulations are:

 

[rmorgan]

The team at Florida Aquarium has been studying this (transmission in a lab setting) and has published some results. I will try to find this reference and post it

Hoyden and @drrich2, scubadada posted this on the other thread yesterday. Actually interesting and promising, to my read, but basic research a long way from deployment. Chemical and genomic characterization of a potential probiotic treatment for stony coral tissue loss disease - Communications Biology

 

[rmorgan]

Sad to see the pile of sharpnose puffers, and can't imagine how they ended up together other than through human intervention, especially since they appear to be in various stages of decomposition. We were there in March, and there were sharpnose puffers everywhere, far beyond anything we'd seen before. Hordes! Maybe people were using them for bait and dumping what they didn't use.

 

[Jake 10]

That is a terrible article. The reporting is incorrect. For example, it says: "don’t dive in uninfected areas" but the actual STINAPA regulations are:
View attachment 780820

you are correct: is contradictory.., they start with "don't dive in uninfected areas"
then they circumvent themselves with decontaminate, limit your dives per area, and then in bullet three (3) they write: Avoid diving in infected areas

 

[Jake 10]

Sad to see the pile of sharpnose puffers, and can't imagine how they ended up together other than through human intervention, especially since they appear to be in various stages of decomposition. We were there in March, and there were sharpnose puffers everywhere, far beyond anything we'd seen before. Hordes! Maybe people were using them for bait and dumping what they didn't use.

I had the same observation, they are all piled up together, seems to be all same species, and they are in various stages of decomposition.

When you say there were sharpnose puffers everywhere. You mean alive and swimming, or on shore piled up?

 

[rmorgan]

I had the same observation, they are all piled up together, and they are in various stages of decomposition.

When you say there were sharpnose puffers everywhere. You mean alive and swimming, or on shore piled up?

Alive and swimming. It seemed like every third fish was a sharpnose puffer!

 

[tursiops]

you are correct: is contradictory.., they start with "don't dive in uninfected areas"
then they circumvent themselves with decontaminate, limit your dives per area, and then in bullet three (3) they write: Avoid diving in infected areas

View attachment 780831

Your response is confusing. You appear to be mixing the infoboanire article you linked with my quote from the STINAPA regulations at Bonaire National Marine Park

 

[tursiops]

View attachment 780807

You appear to be quoting; where is this quote from?

 

[Jake 10]

I

You appear to be quoting; where is this quote from?

I am quoting, from this article: Coral Disease Outbreak: Urgent Call for Help

 

[drrich2]

Maybe people were using them for bait and dumping what they didn't use.

Hope not. That's a very toxic fish, if I understand correctly.

Wikipedia page on the Caribbean sharp-nose puffer.