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From: WADE DOAK
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Date: 10-08-10
Time: 10:21
Recently I did an interview re mangroves and their values for Canadian TV ONE OCEAN which is on YOUTUBE. The very people who hate them most are often fishermen who can most benefit from the marine life they support. This is not widely known or understood. As an author of 18 books I have written an illustrated book on them [unpublished] and made DVD films of them by day and by night. In hating mangroves we shoot the messenger: it is sedimentation from misused catchments and major land reclamation that reduce estuary volume and hence, tidal flushing, that cause mangroves to colonise new areas. But much former mangrove area is now reclaimed land.
YOUTUBE: WADE DOAK ON THE VALUE OF MANGROVES: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKF3KAryFUc
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