Coral reef transplantation is an effort in order to multiply the coral colony using fragmentation method where the colony is taken from the certain main colony.
The purpose of coral reef transplantation is to speed the regeneration from the corals which can be traded and to enhance the quality of coral habitat. The
coral mariculture activity is an effort to develop natural based population or habitat to get offspring production which can be harvested continuously.
It is aware that the coral mariculture activity is a big investment, so it needs a clear guide and conception and supported by scientific references and
comprehensive practice as well in the field in pouring its legality aspects. It is hoped that a strong and transparent regulation supported by stakeholders can
give optimum result in legal administration and conservation technical activity of various kinds of coral for that purpose The Directorate of Natural Diversity
Conservation- the Directorate of Forestry Protection and Natural Conservation has arranged: “The Guide of Traded Coral mariculture”
B. Purpose
1. Getting coral mariculture as the result of transplantationpropagation in a guaranteed number and quality for the shake of utility and trade in
order to decrease the direct pressure of the natural population. 2. Getting a kind of certain and legal administration physically that the
utility of coral maricultureis from the transplantationpropagation activity.
C. Boundary and Comprehensiveness
1. Transplantation is an effort to multiply by propagation and enlarge the plants and wild animals by giving special attention on the purity of the
species. 2. Enlarging is an effort to maintain and enlarge the main seed and the
offspring of the plants and wild animals from the nature by keeping the purity of its species.
3. Coral mariculture is an activity to multiply the number of coral colony through the fragmentation of specimen from the natural habitat or other
natural resources by attaching the fragment on the artificial medium and grow it on natural habitat or artificial habitat.
4. Coral fragment is the cutting of coral with special size which are ready to be transplanted.
5. Substratebase is an artificial medium where the coral fragment transplantation attached.
6. Coral colony is a group of coral animals arranged by more than one coral polyp from the similar species which become a skeleton.
7. Tentacle is coral polyp arms which function to catch the food and clean themselves.
8. Coral is a hard coral, and it is a hollow animal which has lime as the owner and the former of coral.
9. Tagging is giving a sign physically on the certain part of plants species or wild animals and the result of them either in the transplantation result
or enlarging. 10. Seed or first main seed is an individual or coral colony taken from the
natural habitat or individual coral as a transplantation result which will use as seed the main seed of transplantation.
11. Main seed is the second main seed of transplantation of coral fragment picked up from the result of enlarging process to be enlarged later.
12. Offspring is an individual coral as transplantation result from the main seed fragment which is prepared to trade from the transplantation
result. 13. Technical Assistance Unit of Natural Resources Conservation UPT
KSDA is an organization which will do the activity technically includes KSDA board, KSDA Sub board under the responsibility of the General
Director of Forestry Protection and Natural Conservation.
II. CORAL BIOECOLOGY
