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Friends of Marine Life (FML), a Thiruvananthapuram-based marine biodiversity forum, has sought the urgent involution of the Kerala State Biodiversity Board (KSBB) and the Forest section to support a newly-documented underwater ecosystem betwixt Adimalathura and Poovar.
FML, successful collaboration with SCUBA Cochin, documented the underwater portion which is affluent successful marine biodiversity, FML main coordinator Robert Panipilla said. “This is an underwater rocky situation which is affluent successful food wealthiness known to section fishers arsenic ‘Panthakallu.’ The food diverseness appraisal by FML has revealed the beingness of implicit 30 families of reef fishes,” Mr. Panipilla said. The ecosystem exists astatine a extent of 15 m, helium said.
In summation to fish, turtles, corals, oversea sponges, bryozoans, hydrozoans, molluscs, feather stars and conduit worms are besides recovered successful the portion which lies owed westbound of Kochuthura betwixt Adimalathura and Poovar, according to him.
Two fishers from Poovar, Siluvakurissu and Dawilson guided the researchers during the documentation.
Mr. Panipilla said it was imperative that the KSBB and Forest section instrumentality steps to support this marine biodiversity wealth.
