Monday 8 December 2008

Tokoriki Diving, Fiji: Tokoriki Diving: Artificial Reefs

Tokoriki Diving, Fiji: Tokoriki Diving: Artificial Reefs

On Tokoriki Wall, our Home Reef and favourite beginner and night dive site, we have placed various handmade fish houses. These stone/cement structures are still young but are being colonized fast by various species of coral, algae and other organisms.

According to the University of Florida paper on artificial reefs: “Artificial reef materials provide a hard stable surface to which natural, local organisms, such as barnacles and algae, attach and grow. The encrusting plants and animals, in turn, serve as food and shelter for fish and other marine life, initiating an integrated marine ecosystem. …Artificial reefs provide new communities a location on which to establish themselves and prosper.”
Check our Dive Sites Map for locations of our Artificial reefs


Tokoriki Diving, Fiji: Tokoriki Diving: Artificial Reefs

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