Biologist Ulaşcan Kayataş reported that the mucshage began to cover the corals on the rabbit island and that this layer of mucillas poses a risk for the life of the corals.
ISTANBUL (AA) – Biriz Özbakır – Corals covering 0.0025 percent of the ocean and sea base around the world, despite these small areas, it is home to 25 percent of its living being in the sea. Increasing sea water temperatures and pollution with climate change threaten the presence of coral, while the MÜSİLAJ is seen as one of these risk factors.
Diver and biologist Ulaşcan Kayataş from the Association of Naval Life, Baranl Keskin and Volunteer Diver Yener Kuner Kuner Kuşculuoğlu, the only sea protection area in the Marmara Sea and hosted Türkiye’s first and only coral transport project, dived.
Answering the questions of the AA correspondent, Kayataş said that corals provide an important area in terms of nutrition, housing and reproductive area as well as contributing to the struggle against climate change.
Kayataş said, “Mercan colonies have a very high carbon storage capacity. This is extremely valuable for free carbon in the air to hold on the sea base. In particular, we are talking about greenhouse gas effect and carbon emission load. In this context, the corals are extremely valuable. ”
The cause of the mucs in the Marmara Sea may be the increase in temperature at the bottom of the sea
Kayataş stated that they dived 35 meters to control the health of the corals on Rabbit Island, that the mushale, which shows intensity up to 25 meters, collapsed to the bottom and threatened the vitality in the sea base, and continued his words as follows:
“We go there for measurement, but we couldn’t even make that measurement. We are talking about an intense muslaj, we had to clean up these corals with pallets under water. The longer for the corals, the longer the risk of death for the corals. Because coral groups have a branch structure. There are small polyps in this branch and these polyps have their tentacles. They are gathering organic materials with tentacles. In other words, these creatures will die if these tentacles are covered and the digestive gaps are closed. ”
The average depth of the Marmara Sea, which is known as 300 meters, about 25-30 meters of the surface water from the Black Sea, the rest of the Mediterranean came from the Mediterranean Kayataş noted, although the air temperatures in the seasonal norms of the season in the Marmara Sea in the Marmara Sea, said that the peak in December and January, he said. Kayataş continued as follows:
There is a very critical data
“This is an interesting data because we were always talking about the change of atmospheric weather conditions, but atmospheric weather conditions are now close to seasonal norms. Maybe 1-2 degrees difference. There are no extreme conditions like last year. There is a very critical data we have obtained from our diving. Normally, after passing the Mediterranean water, the Black Sea, the sea water temperature is fixed in the 14-15 degree band. However, we measured the water temperature of 34 meters at 16 degrees in our dive on February 13th. This suggested that this problem related to the muslaj could be caused by the increase in temperature at the bottom of the Marmara Sea. Because the weather conditions are cold, and in the seasonal norms, even less. ”
Kayataş, the Sea of Marmara is becoming increasingly oxygenated, the temperature of the sea at the bottom of the sea can rapidly increase the problem of oxygenization, he added.
“It is necessary to reduce the organic waste input of the Marmara Sea”
Stating that the soft coral species found in the Marmara Sea has a potential to be evaluated in terms of tourism, Kayataş, “It supports fisheries, but at the same time, corals also support tourism -based dives, so ecotourism, as corals create visually aesthetic structures. Because the structures they create naturally support the biological diversity and increase the vitality around them, and in this way you create a potential dive point in the name of ecological tourism ”shared the assessment.
If the Marmara Sea dies …
Underlining the need to reduce the organic waste input of the Marmara Sea, even if possible, it is necessary to completely cut off, and proposed to establish advanced biological treatment plants in all provinces.
Ulaşcan Kayataş completed his words as follows:
“If there is no Marmara Sea, there will be no Black Sea or the Mediterranean. Because the Sea of Marmara is the transition zone for both seas. Fish migrate from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Hamsis are coming from the Black Sea. Now, if the Sea of Marmara dies, the animals that will migrate from there will die. Because The mushale does not only make it without oxygen, it prevents the fish from breathing and breathing, and the living is dying again. If the creatures in the sea base die, the creatures fed with them will die.For example, there will be no swallow and shield. These fish, which are already very few, will disappear. “
