In a report by Maki Pulido for “News To Go” on Friday, Coral reefs at disputed Spratly and Pag-asa Islands were seen to be destroyed by propellers of Chinese poachers vessels, said John McManus a marine biology and fisheries professor at the University of Miami.
“I looked at the historical satellite imagery and found out that in every single case where they built their islands, a few years before, there had been the giant clam fishers who had used their boats to dig up the reef flat, killing all the corals,” McManus said.
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