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Growing Taste for Reef Fish Sends Their Numbers Sinking
It is a slow night at the Port View Restaurant here, and still the place seems packed. Several banquet tables are crowded with a dozen people apiece. Each table seems as if it could collapse from the weight of plates.
Falling to the forks are steaming spring prawns, spotted lobster, coral trout and especially giant grouper, which minutes before had been listlessly swimming in one of the many murky tanks at the Port View, one of the most popular restaurants in this tourist town on the northeast tip of Borneo, in Malaysia`s Sabah province.
The fierce appetite for live reef fish across Southeast Asia -- and increasingly in mainland China -- is devastating populations in the Coral Triangle, a protected marine region home to the world`s richest ocean diversity, according to a recent report in the scientific journal Conservation Biology. Spawning of reef fish in this area, which supports 75 percent of all known coral species in the world, has declined 79 percent ...
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